# Tayari Jones: Kin, Oprah's Book Club Pick

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Published: 2026-02-24T08:01:00+00:00
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## Resource

On this week’s episode of You Are What You Read, we are joined by Tayari Jones and her new novel, the Oprah's Book Club selection, Kin. Tayari is the author of five 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. An American Marriage 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. Tayari is the C.H. Candler Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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