FAMILY DYNAMICS

"Love requires courage, if fortifies you at the same time. I don't know anything else in the world that yields the exact same treasure it demands."

On these hot summer days, sometimes the only thing we have the energy for is reading! So let's read something that promises to be good!! This month, we will be discussing our third selection under the theme "Books everyone should read":

Kin, by Tayari Jones (2026)
Vernice and Annie are 'cradle friends', born days apart in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, both destined never to know their mothers. The girls are inseparable, bound by a friendship far deeper than sisterhood. But this is the American south in the 1950s. Black girls like Vernice and Annie have to fight for every opportunity they can, and neither one can build the future they hope for in Honeysuckle.

Gradually, inevitably, the girls drift apart. Vernice pursues her education; Annie is lured by the promise of a heady first love affair and a growing obsession with finding her mother. But her search pulls her even further into a world of danger that soon leaves her oldest friend battling to save her.

Watch for e-mails in the coming days requesting suggestions and voting for our August and September selections.