Tayari Jones: Kin

Sydney Writers' Festival by Sydney Writers' Festival

Sep 3, 202651:41Society & Culture

Two motherless girls begin their lives in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, but they take paths that are worlds apart. Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage , winner of the 2019 Women's Prize for Fiction, has written anothe...

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