Tayari Jones: ‘I used to be very suspicious of writers who said the story chose them’

Tayari Jones: ‘I used to be very suspicious of writers who said the story chose them’

The award-winning US author ‘refused to write historically’, but Kin, her new novel, is set in the 1960s. She explains why

Tayari Jones wants her readers to take pleasure from Kin, and pleasure is easy to find on its pages. Set amid the nascent hope of the 1960s American civil rights movement, and following the lives of … [+10407 chars]

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