Australian Competitions Club

A magnificent new novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of An American Marriage—a novel about mothers and daughters, about friendship and sisterhood.
Kin is the kind of all-encompassing reading experience I’m always hoping to find: smash and funny.

A magnificent 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.

Vernice 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.
Raised 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.
Annie, 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.

A 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.

Question: Where were Vernice and Annie raised? Answer: Honeysuckle, Louisiana

https://goodreadingmagazine.com.au/competitions/free-february-08-kin/

Terms And Conditions:

1. Entry is open to all residents of Australia and New Zealand from 8 February 2026 to 9 February 2026. 2. Employees and the immediate families of the promoter and agencies associated with this promotion are ineligible. 3. The judge’s decision is final, and no correspondence will be entered into. 4. The first correct entries drawn from the competition in February 2026 will win the book. 5. The promoter accepts no responsibility for late, lost or misdirected mail. 6. The winners of the prize will be notified by email in February 2026.