Opening Times
| Dates (28 May 2026) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Day | Times | |
| Thursday | 19:00 | - 20:00 |
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Mr B's Emporium is delighted to welcome Tayari Jones, author of the Women's Prize-winning novel and Team B fave, An American Marriage, as she joins them for her magnificent and highly anticipated new novel, Kin.
Kin is a luminous, and deeply moving novel set in 1950s Louisiana, about mothers and daughters, and two lifelong friends whose lives collide after years of separation.
About the book:
A yearning for their missing mothers pulls Vernice and Annie apart. It will take a devastating tragedy to bring them back together, in the spellbinding new novel from award-winning author, Tayari JonesVernice and Annie are 'cradle friends', born days apart in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, both destined never to know their mothers.
The girls are inseparable, bound by a friendship far deeper than sisterhood. But this is the American south in the 1950s. Black girls like Vernice and Annie have to fight for every opportunity they can, and neither one can build the future they hope for in Honeysuckle. Gradually, inevitably, the girls drift apart.
Vernice pursues her education; Annie is lured by the promise of a heady first love affair and a growing obsession with finding her mother. But her search pulls her even further into a world of danger that soon leaves her oldest friend battling to save her. Tayari Jones returns with an exuberant, richly told story about mothers, daughters, and a lifelong friendship that is as dangerous as it is unbreakable.
"Smart and funny and deftly profound. This is Tayari Jones's very best work." – Ann Patchett, author of Tom Lake
About the author: Tayari Jones is the internationally bestselling author of four novels, most recently An American Marriage, winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019. Jones is the recipient of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, a United States Artist Fellowship, NEA Fellowship and a Radcliffe Institute Bunting Fellowship. She is also a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Born in Atlanta, Jones is a graduate of Spelman College, University of Iowa, and Arizona State University. She is currently professor of Creative Writing at Emory University and an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University.
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