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Kin

<b>Kin <i>is the kind of all-encompassing reading experience I’m always hoping to find: smart and funny.</i></b><br /><b>ANN PATCHETT</b><br /><br />A magnificent new novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of <i>An American Marriage</i>—a novel that sparkles with wit, intelligence and deep feeling about two lifelong friends whose worlds collide in the face of a devastating tragedy.<br /><br />Vernice and Annie, two motherless daughters raised in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, have been best friends and neighbours since earliest childhood, but are fated to live starkly different lives.<br /><br /> 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 Atlanta, where she joins a sisterhood of powerfully connected Black women and discovers a world of affluence, manners, aspiration and inequality.<br /><br /> Annie, abandoned by her mother as a child, and fixated on the idea of finding her, 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.<br /><br /> A novel about mothers and daughters, friendship and sisterhood, and the complexities of being a woman in the American South, <i>Kin </i>is an exuberant, emotionally rich, unforgettable work from one of the brightest and most irresistible voices in contemporary fiction.