Literary in the Lounge - Tayari Jones with KIN

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On Friday, March 6 at 7pm, award-winning writer Tayari Jones visits The Music Hall Lounge with her new book, KIN. A magnificent new novel from the bestselling author of An American Marriage, KIN is about two lifelong friends whose worlds converge after many years apart in the face of a devastating tragedy.

This 7pm event features a moderated conversation, and is followed by an audience Q&A and a post-show meet-and-greet. It will be held at The Music Hall Lounge at 131 Congress St., Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Tickets are $47 and include a signed book (KIN, $32, hardcover).

About the book:
Vernice and Annie, two motherless daughters raised in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, have been best friends and neighbors 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 Spelman College, 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 and filling the bottomless hole left by her absence, 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.

About the author:
Tayari Jones is the author of four novels, most recently An American Marriage, which was an Oprah’s Book Club selection and also appeared on Barack Obama’s summer reading list, as well as in his year-end roundup. It won the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Aspen Words Literary Prize, and an NAACP Image Award and has been published in two dozen countries. Jones is the C.H. Candler Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University and lives in Atlanta.