We’re thrilled to share that Tayari Jones – A.D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell and professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University – has had her upcoming novel KIN named by The New York Times as one of its “Novels Everyone Will Be Talking About in 2026.” 

A magnificent new novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of An American Marriage —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.

A novel about mothers and daughters, 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.

Congratulations, Professor Jones!

Tayari Jones is the author of four novels, including An American Marriage, which was an Oprah’s Book Club selection and also appeared on Barack Obama’s summer reading list and his year-end roundup. It won the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Aspen Words Literary Prize, and an NAACP Image Award and has been published in two dozen countries.