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Kin
  • Published: 24 February 2026
  • ISBN: 9781761041976
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $38.00

Kin

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24 Feb 2026
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24 Feb 2026
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24 Feb 2026
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A magnificent new novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of An American Marriage—a novel about mothers and daughters, about friendship and sisterhood.

Kin is the kind of all-encompassing reading experience I’m always hoping to find: smart and funny.
ANN PATCHETT

A magnificent new novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of An American Marriage—a novel that sparkles with wit, intelligence and deep feeling about two lifelong friends whose worlds collide in the face of a devastating tragedy.

Vernice and Annie, two motherless daughters raised in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, have been best friends and neighbours since earliest childhood, but are fated to live starkly different lives.

Raised by a fierce aunt determined to give her a stable home in the wake of her mother’s death, Vernice leaves Honeysuckle at eighteen for Atlanta, where she joins a sisterhood of powerfully connected Black women and discovers a world of affluence, manners, aspiration and inequality.

Annie, abandoned by her mother as a child, and fixated on the idea of finding her, sets off on a journey that will take her into a world of peril and adversity, as well as love and adventure, culminating in a battle for her life.

A novel about mothers and daughters, friendship and sisterhood, and the complexities of being a woman in the American South, Kin is an exuberant, emotionally rich, unforgettable work from one of the brightest and most irresistible voices in contemporary fiction.
  • Published: 24 February 2026
  • ISBN: 9781761041976
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $38.00
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About the author

Tayari Jones

Tayari Jones is the author of four novels, most recently An American Marriage which won the Women's Prize for Fiction. An American Marriage was an Oprah’s Book Club Selection and also appeared on Barack Obama’s summer reading list as well as his year-end roundup. The novel was awarded the Aspen Words Prize and an NAACP Image Award. It has been published in two dozen countries.
Jones, a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow, has also been a recipient of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, United States Artist Fellowship, NEA Fellowship, and Radcliffe Institute Bunting Fellowship. Her third novel, Silver Sparrow, was added to the NEA Big Read Library of classics in 2016.
Jones is a graduate of Spelman College, University of Iowa, and Arizona State University. She is an Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University and the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Creative Writing at Emory University.

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Praise for Kin

Kin is the kind of all-encompassing reading experience I’m always hoping to find: smart and funny.

Ann Patchett

Characters that i loved, in a book I adored.

Claire Nichols, The Book Show

Kin is a lush, beautiful novel about the family we make. . . . Jones maintains a light touch and a gift for effortless portraiture. . . . When reading Kin, I wanted nothing more than to keep reading it. That’s the circle Jones creates, the one that connects her voice, her characters and her readers.

Radhika Jones, The New York Times Book Review

Rich and wonderful and it devastated me.

Sofie Laguna

Jones delivers a triumphant novel of two motherless girls from rural Honeysuckle, Louisiana, who follow very different paths into adulthood. . . . Throughout, Jones tells her protagonists’ stories with grace, humour, and pathos. Kin is a tour de force.

Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Beautifully written and powerfully compelling. . . . Tayari Jones interrogates social injustice through the lens of personal relationships while exploring the ways in which it shapes those relationships, and she does this in language that is intimate, conversational, and musical all at once.

Kirkus (starred review)

Propulsive and compelling.

The Boston Globe

A riveting and deeply moving portrait of indelible female friendship, found family and finding your way. . . . This gorgeous novel already feels like a future classic.

Roisin O’Donnell, author of Nesting

A triumphant return of one of the most important literary voices today. Vibrant, funny, moving and powerful, Kin is an unforgettable read.

Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, author of The Mountains Sing

When reading Kin, I wanted nothing more than to keep reading it. That’s the circle Jones creates, the one that connects her voice, her characters and her readers.

Radhika Jones, New York Times Book Review