Two friends, united by their missing mothers, come of age in segregation-era America, in a cautionary tale about the limits of love Annie and Vernice (or Niecy, as Annie calls her) are “cradle friends”, brought up in their home town of Honeysuckle, Louisiana, in 1950s America. The protagonists a...

Source: [Guardian International](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jun/24/kin-by-tayari-jones-review-a-haunting-tale-of-motherlessness)

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