About this Event
Remembering is an act of Resistance...
Join us as we welcome NAACP Image Award winning author, Tayari Jones, for the release of her new novel, Kin.
Tayari will be in conversation with professor and fellow award winning author, Asali Solomon.
Get ready for a powerful and captivating discussion about writing novels, life, sisterhood, overcoming adversity and so much more.
Q&A will follow the discussion.
All tickets will come with a signed copy of Kin.
You will regret not being a part of this!
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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. Her latest novel is Kin.
About the book:
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.
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.
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Doors open at 7:00pm.
Street parking available. Wheelchair accessible entrance available.
A ll ticket sales are final and non-refundable.
Bags larger than a handbag will not be permitted
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Greene Street Friends School, 20 W. Armat St, Philadelphia, United States
USD 12.50 to USD 38.11
