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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK KIRKUS PRIZE FINALIST 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...

Kin is the kind of all-encompassing reading experience I'm always hoping to find: smart and funny. ANN PATCHETT A magnificent new novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of An American Marriage-a novel that sparkles with wit, intelligence and deep feeling about two lifelong friends...

Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to 12 years for a crime Celestial knows he didn't commit. Though fiercely independent, Celestial finds herself bereft and unmoored, taking comfort in Andre, her childhood friend, and best man at their wedding.

Chaurisse and Dana have a lot in common. They both grew up in Atlanta, they shop at the same stores, visit the same restaurants. But unlike Chaurisse, Dana knows the truth: that the girls share the same father. A father with two families, one of which he is determined to keep secret. When the...

Come sit on the veranda and pour yourself a glass of sweet tea, fortified with a slug of bourbon. Put your feet up and enjoy these stories set in Atlanta, a city sewn from the ashes, where everything that grows is both fertilized and corrupted by the past.

"Mon père, James Witherspoon, est bigame." C'est par cette confession percutante que Dana Lynn Yarboro débute le récit d'une enfance pas comme les autres au sein de la communauté afro-américaine d'Atlanta, dans les années 1980. Bien que née quatre mois avant sa demi-sœur Chaurisse, Dana est pourtant l'enfant illégitime, fruit d'une union illicite. L'une est un secret à qui James rend visite une fois par semaine tandis que l'autre mène une vie stable auprès de ses deux parents, inconsciente de son privilège.

Celestial et Roy viennent de se marier. Elle est à l'aube d'une carrière artistique prometteuse, il s'apprête à lancer son business. Ils sont jeunes, beaux et incarnent le rêve américain... à ceci près qu'ils sont noirs, dans un État sudiste qui fait peu de cadeaux aux gens comme eux. Un matin, Roy est accusé de viol. Celestial sait qu'il est innocent, mais la justice s'empresse de le condamner.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An official Oprah Winfrey’s “The Books That Help Me Through” selection The acclaimed Nobel Prize winner transfigures the coming-of-age story with this brilliantly imagined novel. Includes a foreword by the author and a new introduction by Tayari Jones. One...