{"product_id":"july-2026-fiction-book-club-july-30-7pm","title":"JULY 2026: Fiction Book Club - July 30 @ 7PM","description":"\u003cp\u003eWe're meeting to discuss \u003ci\u003eKin \u003c\/i\u003eby \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTayari Jones\u003c\/span\u003e!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eBOOK CLUB MEETING DEETS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen: Thursday, July 30 @ 7PM CST\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhere: Kindred Stories (\u003cspan\u003e2310 Elgin St, Houston, TX 77004)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow: RSVP ONLY to let us know you plan to attend! Support the Fiction Book Club by purchasing a copy of the book from Kindred Stories \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/kindredstorieshtx.com\/products\/kin-a-novel?_pos=1\u0026amp;_sid=451cb958e\u0026amp;_ss=r\" title=\"here!\"\u003ehere!\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eABOUT KIN\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA 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 lifelong friends whose worlds converge after many years apart in the face of a devastating tragedy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVernice and Annie, two motherless daughters raised in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, have been best friends and neighbors since earliest childhood but are fated to live starkly different lives. Raised by a fierce aunt determined to give her a stable home in the wake of her mother’s death, Vernice leaves Honeysuckle at eighteen for Spelman College, where she joins a sisterhood of powerfully connected Black women and discovers a world of affluence, manners, aspiration, and inequality. Annie, abandoned by her mother as a child and fixated on the idea of finding her and filling the bottomless hole left by her absence, sets off on a journey that will take her into a world of peril and adversity, as well as love and adventure, culminating in a battle for her life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA 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\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kindred Stories","offers":[{"title":"RSVP","offer_id":48621430046975,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0527\/3577\/0820\/files\/JULYFICTIONBOOKCLUB.png?v=1780422567","url":"https:\/\/kindredstorieshtx.com\/products\/july-2026-fiction-book-club-july-30-7pm","provider":"Kindred Stories","version":"1.0","type":"link"}