Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Bestselling author Tayari Jones (An American Marriage, Silver Sparrow) discusses her upcoming novel, KIN, as well as her writing influences, why she loves letter writing, what inspired her newest work, and why "history is all around us..." in this deeply moving conversation with Jill Cox-Cordova, former Library Journal editor. Taped live on December 4, 2025 for the Penguin Random House, Library Journal and School Library Journal Virtual Book & Author Festival.

Librarians, learn more about KIN (available 2/24/26 from Knopf, Penguin Random House) here: penguinrandomhouselibrary.com/book/?isbn=9780525659181