An Evening with Tayari Jones in Bristol

We're thrilled to welcome Tayari Jones to Bristol in celebration of her new novel Kin!

Vernice and Annie are ‘cradle friends’, both born in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, both destined never to know their mothers. The girls are inseparable, bound by a friendship far deeper than sisterhood, but as they grow up, their lives start to look very different in the segregated America of the 1950s and 60s.

Both girls leave Honeysuckle in search of something that might fill the hole left by their absent mothers: a university education, the promise of a first love affair, the hope offered by the simmering civil rights movement. But it is Annie whose bad decisions pull her into a world of danger, leaving her oldest friend to battle to save her.

Tayari Jones is the author of four novels, including An American Marriage, which was an Oprah's Book Club selection and also featured on Barack Obama's summer reading list and year-end roundup. She lives in Atlanta and is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University.

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