Tayari Jones talks to Tanya Burr

The best-selling author of An American Marriage returns to Hay Festival to talk about her luminous and deeply moving new novel about mothers, daughters and friendship. She talks to Tanya Burr, who runs monthly bookclub Chapter, a space for readers to celebrate literature and connect through thoughtful discussion.

In Kin, Vernice and Annie are inseparable, brought together by the shared absence of their mothers. Growing up in the segregated America of the 1950s and 1960s, the women are led down different paths. A treat for fans of literary fiction, this event is a chance to hear from Jones – the author of five novels – about her work and inspirations. An American Marriage won the Women’s Prize for Fiction and was one of President Barack Obama’s summer reading lists.