The new Oprah Book Club pick has critics and readers buzzing, and in an exclusive interview with theGrio, Jones opens ...

Author Tayari Jones ​talks about how her new book Kin was not the one she set out to write before discussing the feedback she gets from her students and the time she was forced to eat lobster and ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Oprah Winfrey welcomed her latest book club author, Tayari Jones, in a personal way.

Author Tayari Jones opens up about the "thyroid storm" and the writer's block that nearly derailed her follow-up to her ...

Award-winning author Tayari Jones' latest novel, "Kin," centers two motherless girls growing up in the segregated south in ...

Atlanta author Tayari Jones discusses her new historical novel "Kin," in which two motherless Louisiana girls take different ...

Oprah Winfrey has selected her first book club pick of 2026, and it's an author she's chosen before. Here's why she loved this "masterful" new novel.

Jones' new novel, Kin, is set in 1950s Louisiana and Atlanta, and tells the story of two young women who grow up next door to each other without their mothers.

Oprah Winfrey named her newest book club pick: Tayari Jones' "Kin," a novel about two motherless daughters from the fictional town of Honeysuckle, Louisiana, where they grew up as "cradle friends." "I ...

The author’s novel about the friendship between two Black girls growing up in the 1950s has a remarkably traditional bent.

In Tayari Jones’s novel, two childhood friends in 1950s Louisiana take “different tines at the fork in the road.” ...

In “Kin,” the follow-up to the best-selling “An American Marriage,” she looks back on the place and the people that forged her.