Save the date! Tayari Jones joins the Vancouver Writers Fest on Thursday, April 23, 2026. Tickets will be released soon (date TBA). Make sure to subscribe to our free mailing list to be the first to know when tickets go on sale. You can sign up for infrequent event updates only, or consider signing up for our excellent weekly newsletter to receive regular literary news and hand-picked cultural events.
Tayari Jones is the author of four novels, most recently An American Marriage, which was an Oprah’s Book Club selection; appeared on Barack Obama’s summer reading list and his year-end roundup; and won the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Aspen Words Literary Prize, and an NAACP Image Award. She joins the Books & Ideas series on Granville Island with Kin—a widely acclaimed new novel about two lifelong friends whose worlds converge after many years apart in the face of a devastating tragedy.
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 and emotionally rich work, from one of the brightest and most irresistible voices in contemporary fiction. With starred reviews from Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and BookPage, Kin is sure to be one of the most talked about novels of the season.
Kin is available February 24 from Penguin Canada. Don’t miss Tayari Jones in conversation—subscribe to our mailing list to be informed as soon as tickets go on sale.