Arts & Letters Live Presents: Tayari Jones
Schedule
Thu Mar 12 2026 at 07:30 pm to 09:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
1717 N Harwood St, Dallas, TX, United States, Texas 75201 | Dallas, TX
Advertisement
A magnificent new novel from Tayari Jones sparkling with wit, intelligence, and deep feeling, "Kin" follows two lifelong friends whose worlds converge after many years apart in the face of a devastating tragedy.Vernice and Annie, two motherless daughters raised in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, have been best friends and neighbors since earliest childhood, but are fated to live starkly different lives. Raised by her aunt in the wake of her mother’s death, Vernice leaves home at 18 for Spelman College, where she joins a sisterhood of powerfully connected Black women and marries into an affluent family. Annie, abandoned by her dissolute mother as a child, and fixated on the idea of finding her, sets off on a journey that will culminate in a battle for her life.
Tayari Jones is the author of four novels, most recently "An American Marriage," which won the Women’s Prize for Fiction and an NAACP Image Award. The novel was also an Oprah’s Book Club Selection and appeared on Barack Obama’s summer reading list and year-end roundup.
Advertisement
Where is it happening?
1717 N Harwood St, Dallas, TX, United States, Texas 75201Event Location & Nearby Stays:
Know what’s Happening Next — before everyone else does.
