OUR REVIEW:
OhmygodIlovethisbook. I read it for my book club and am still thinking about it a month later. I am seriously considering it for one of the independent reading choices for my students next year. It's so good. It's rich and layered and thoughtful and thought-provoking. There are so many things I think anyone reading it could explore and consider and I loved having my book friends discuss with me. I hope everyone who reads it has someone to discuss it with.
Vernice and Annie are such special characters. The way they grapple with the impacts of being motherless are so very different and yet you can see the overlapping of the pain and hurt and curiosity that guides them both down their very different paths. And even though their paths into adulthood are so very different, the love and respect they always hold for each other are deep and abiding.
I love the so much about this novel-the beautifully crafted characters, the settings and scenes that are truly unforgettable, and the ideas about sisterhood, chosen families, and love. I cannot recommend this novel enough.
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SYNOPSIS:
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 Atlanta 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.
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.
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