"I thought Jimmy Carter was black" | Tayari Jones interview

Podcast: The New Society | culture from the New Statesman · The New Statesman

Opublikowano: 2026-06-26

Tayari Jones is one of America's most celebrated novelists, twice chosen by Oprah, shortlisted for prizes on both sides of the Atlantic, and read by presidents. Her newest book was meant to be a tale of gentrification in the American South, she found herself an entirely different story. Kin follows two motherless girls coming of age in 1950s Louisiana, the Jim Crow South.It's a novel about female friendship, class, race, and motherhood. Jones discusses her latest book, about growing up "bourgeois and segregated" in Atlanta as the daughter of civil rights activists...