Manchester Literature Festival presents Tayari Jones  

Manchester Literature Festival welcomes bestselling author Tayari Jones to discuss her highly anticipated new novel Kin.

Born days apart in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, Vernice and Annie grow up inseparable, bound by a shared loss: neither will ever know her mother. Coming of age in segregated America in the 1950s and 60s, their lives diverge as Vernice pursues education and escape from Honeysuckle, through marriage into an affluent family, while Annie becomes consumed by the need to find her absent mother. When Annie’s search draws her into danger, it is Vernice who must risk everything to save her. Gripping and emotionally rich, Kin explores love, loyalty and the limited choices available to women.   

Hear from one of the warmest, wisest and most irresistible voices in contemporary fiction as Tayari Jones discusses mothers and daughters, lifelong friendship and the truths that shape us. 

‘It’s among Tayari’s many gifts that she can touch us soul to soul with her words.’ Oprah Winfrey  

‘Jones writes with intelligence and a lively wit, but there’s more – a warmth that forces you to care about these people as if you had met them.’  The Times 

Tayari Jones is the internationally bestselling author of four novels, including An American Marriage, winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2019, and Silver Sparrow. An Oprah’s Book Club pick, her work has won multiple literary awards. She is Professor of Creative Writing at Emory University and an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University and lives in Atlanta, Georgia. 

Presented in partnership with the Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester.