Spilling the Tea with Tayari Jones
Schedule
Tue Apr 14 2026 at 04:00 pm to 06:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
The Bruce Hotel | Stratford, ON
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It is with great delight that we can now share the news that award-winning and bestselling author Tayari Jones will be making Stratford a stop on her North American book tour.Please join us on Tuesday April 14th to celebrate and discuss Tayari Jones' highly-anticipated new novel, Kin.
Spilling the Tea with Tayari Jones - The Bruce Hotel
Kin releases next Tuesday February 24th and we'll have lots of copies. Pre-order today. Free local delivery or pick up at our BOOK BAR at Matilda Gallery & Art Bar.
This is going to be THE book that everyone will be talking about this Spring.
About Kin:
A magnificent new novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of An American Marriage—Tayari Jones has written an unforgettable novel that sparkles with wit and intelligence and deep feeling about 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 a fierce aunt determined to give her a stable home in the wake of her mother’s death, Vernice leaves Honeysuckle at eighteen 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 and filling the bottomless hole left by her absence, sets off on a journey that will take her into a world of peril and adversity, as well as love and adventure, and culminate in a battle for her life.
A novel about mothers and daughters, about friendship and sisterhood, and the complexities of being a woman in the American South, Kin is an exuberant, emotionally rich, unforgettable work from one of the brightest and most irresistible voices in contemporary fiction.
About Tayari Jones:
TAYARI JONES is the author of five novels, including An American Marriage, which was an Oprah’s Book Club selection and also appeared on Barack Obama’s summer reading list and his year-end roundup. It won the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Aspen Words Literary Prize, and an NAACP Image Award and has been published in two dozen countries. Jones is the C.H. Candler Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University and lives in Atlanta.
Please join us for a delightful afternoon tea with academic and author Tayari Jones as we celebrate, and discuss, her newest book, Kin.
An audience Q & A and book signing will follow the event.
There are 2 types of tickets available (NO processing fees):
$45 - General Admission - includes afternoon tea with pastries
$80 - General Admission - includes afternoon tea with pastries, AND a signed copy of Kin.
Please note: We will have copies of all Tayari Jones' books available for purchase at the event.
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Where is it happening?
The Bruce Hotel, 89 Parkview Dr.,Stratford, Ontario, CanadaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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