Tayari Jones, the award-winning author of American Marriage, is back with her first novel since 2018. Kin is the story of Vernice and Annie, who both grew up as friends and neighbors in Honeysuckle, Louisiana. The girls were bonded by their motherlessness, but in adulthood, their lives would go in very different directions. Vernice attends college at Spellman University in Atlanta, marries into an affluent family, and befriends a group of wealthy, powerful Black women. Meanwhile, Annie cannot let go of the mother who abandoned her, and Annie’s search for something to make sense of her mother’s absence sends her on a dangerous journey.