The new Oprah Book Club pick has critics and readers buzzing, and in an exclusive interview with theGrio, Jones opens ...

Oprah Winfrey named her newest book club pick: Tayari Jones' "Kin," a novel about two motherless daughters from the fictional town of Honeysuckle, Louisiana, where they grew up as "cradle friends." "I ...

122.83 KB Read a free excerpt of "Kin" by Tayari Jones Oprah Winfrey chose Tayari Jones' book "Kin" as her latest book club pick. Read a free excerpt here.

In March, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Tayari Jones’s new novel, about two motherless girls and their ...

Author Tayari Jones opens up about the "thyroid storm" and the writer's block that nearly derailed her follow-up to her ...

When a character refers to the dual narrators of “Kin” as “crib sisters,” he’s immediately informed that the correct term is “cradle,” not “crib.” There’s a reason for that distinction, I think.

Oprah Winfrey has selected her first book club pick of 2026, and it's an author she's chosen before. Here's why she loved ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Oprah Winfrey welcomed her latest book club author, Tayari Jones, in a personal way.

Atlanta author Tayari Jones discusses her new historical novel "Kin," in which two motherless Louisiana girls take different ...

The novel "Kin" by Tayari Jones is a journey of sisterhood in the Deep South during segregation and the Civil Rights Movement. Two motherless girls, Vernice and Annie, bond throughout their childhood ...

In Tayari Jones’s novel, two childhood friends in 1950s Louisiana take “different tines at the fork in the road.” ...

The author’s novel about the friendship between two Black girls growing up in the 1950s has a remarkably traditional bent.