Name: Tayari Jones in conversation with Pearl Cleage | Kin Book Launch
Start: 2026-02-22T15:00:00-05:00
Location: Rialto Center for the Arts

Tayari Jones in conversation with Pearl Cleage | Kin Book Launch

A magnificent new novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of “An American Marriage”—Tayari Jones has written an unforgettable novel that sparkles with wit and intelligence and deep feeling about two lifelong friends whose worlds converge after many years apart in the face of a devastating tragedy.
A Cappella Books proudly presents Tayari Jones at the Rialto Theater in honor of the launch of her highly anticipated new novel, “Kin,” on Sunday, February 22, at 3 PM. Jones will appear in conversation with Pearl Cleage, renowned playwright and novelist, and Distinguished Artist in Residence at the Alliance Theatre.
Tickets are on sale now through the Rialto Center for the Arts.
Tickets are available at the following levels:
$50 – Signed Keepsake Ticket
Includes autographed first edition of “Kin,” premium seating, and an exclusive signed keepsake created specially for this event.
$38 –Reserved Seat + Signed Book
Includes admission and a autographed first edition of “Kin.”
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 and 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.