Tayari Jones on friendship, writing, and choosing your ‘Kin’
Tayari Jones' latest novel Kin emerged from a period of personal and creative struggle, including a diagnosis of Graves' disease, and reflects her return to the emotional and historical roots of her family and community. Through the intertwined lives of two motherless girls in the 1950s
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