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Shankari Chandran at Sydney Writers Festival

17 - 24 May 2026

Tayari Jones: Kin - Thursday 21 May, 2pm

Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage, winner of the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction, has written another unforgettable story. Her new novel, Kin, centres a complex relationship between childhood best friends, showing how the bonds between mothers, daughters and friends are tested by affluence and inequality, love and desire and a wide world of adventure.

Hear Tayari in conversation with Miles Franklin Literary Award winner Shankari Chandran about her rich and emotional new work.