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Please join us for a delightful afternoon tea with bestselling 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:
$45 - General Admission - includes afternoon tea with pastries
$80 - General Admission - includes afternoon tea with pastries, AND a signed copy of Kin.
 
We will have copies of all of Tayari Jones' books available for purchase.
 
Please note: We will be video and audio recording this event, mainly the interview, for a future episode of our Podcast. You might appear on camera as part of our live audience. If you choose not to be recorded please send us an email or let us know before the start of the event. Thank you.
 
*If you have any accessibility, dietary or other concerns, please do not hesitate to reach out to us:  stratfordartsandlectures@gmail.com
 
This event is brought to you by Stratford Arts & Lectures and The Bruce Hotel.
 
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.