'An American Marriage' author Tayari Jones is out with a new novel 'Kin'
2026-03-05 · 11 min · 7 entities
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Tayari Jones, author of the 2018 novel An American Marriage , says her next book was supposed to be about gentrification in the American South. But while writing her draft, Jones says she realized the backstory of that project was actually the real story. That’s how her new historical fiction novel Kin was born. The book follows two cradle friends who grow up without mothers in Honeysuckle, Louisiana and must navigate life in the Jim Crow South. In today’s episode, Jones tells NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe about how she tapped into something “older than herself” in order to write this story.
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