{"product_id":"the-old-fourth-ward","title":"Kin","description":"\u003cp\u003eA magnificent new novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of An American Marriage-a novel about mothers and daughters, about friendship and sisterhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKin is the kind of all-encompassing reading experience I'm always hoping to find- smart and funny.\u003cbr\u003eANN PATCHETT\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA magnificent new novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of An American Marriage-a novel that sparkles with wit, intelligence and deep feeling about two lifelong friends whose worlds collide in the face of a devastating tragedy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVernice and Annie, two motherless daughters raised in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, have been best friends and neighbours since earliest childhood, but are fated to live starkly different lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRaised 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 Atlanta, where she joins a sisterhood of powerfully connected Black women and discovers a world of affluence, manners, aspiration and inequality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnnie, abandoned by her mother as a child, and fixated on the idea of finding her, 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\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 contemporary fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PRHD Penguin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48388153180383,"sku":"9781761041976","price":38.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0685\/2185\/3151\/files\/9781761041976.jpg?v=1769200236","url":"https:\/\/lamplightbooks.co.nz\/products\/the-old-fourth-ward","provider":"Lamplight Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}