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Author Talk: Tayari Jones

at the Montgomery College, Cultural Arts Center

Join us for an author talk and book signing with international bestselling author, Tayari Jones, to celebrate 75 years of MCPL!

Please note that this program is located at the Montgomery College, Cultural Arts Center: 7995 Georgia Ave, Silver Spring, MD 20910. Registration is required. 

Join us for an author talk and book signing with international bestselling author, Tayari Jones! This program is the hallmark capstone for our 75th anniversary, so to celebrate, the first 100 people to check in at Will Call will get a FREE copy of Jones's new novel, Kin. Books will also be for sale at the venue. A book signing will take place following the 7 PM lecture. 

Doors: 6 PM 

Talk: 7 PM 

Book Signing to follow author talk.

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. A magnificent new novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of An American Marriage—Tayari Jones has written an unforgettable novel that sparkles with wit and intelligence and deep feeling about two lifelong friends whose worlds converge after many years apart in the face of a devastating tragedy.

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New York Times best-selling author Tayari Jones is the author of five novels, most recently Kin. Published in 2026, it is an Oprah’s Book Club Selection. The New York Times and Amazon editors have named it the best novel of the year so far. She is also among the TIME100 list of the most influential people in the world. Her previous novel, An American Marriage, was also an Oprah’s Book Club Selection and appeared on Barack Obama’s summer reading list. The novel was awarded the Women’s Prize for Fiction, Aspen Words Prize and an NAACP Image Award. It has been published in two dozen languages.

Jones, a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow, has also been a recipient of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, United States Artist Fellowship, NEA Fellowship, and Radcliffe Institute Bunting Fellowship. Her third novel, Silver Sparrow, was added to the NEA Big Read Library of classics in 2016.

Jones is a graduate of Spelman College, University of Iowa, and Arizona State University. She is an Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University and the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Creative Writing at Emory University.

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This program is sponsored in partnership with the Friends of the Library Montgomery County (FOLMC), and the Office of Racial Equity and Social Justice.

Please note that this program is located at the Montgomery College, Cultural Arts Center: 7995 Georgia Ave, Silver Spring, MD 20910. Registration is required. 

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