Date and Time
- Monday, Jun 22, 2026 6:30pm - 8pm
Location
Wine Down SF
685 Folsom St
Details
Book & A Bottle: An intentionally paired bottle of wine with each month's book selection
Join us for an informal discussion over great wine each month. Registration is capped, so please make sure to register early if you are planning on attending!
Vernice and Annie have been "cradle friends" since before they could choose each other: two motherless daughters raised in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, bound together by what they've lost and what they still want. But their paths diverge sharply as they grow up: Vernice leaves for Spelman College and finds her footing in a world of connected, ambitious Black women; Annie, still searching for the mother who abandoned her, sets off on a journey through peril and adventure that will test everything she has.
Set against the vivid backdrop of the Jim Crow South in the 1950s and '60s, Kin is told in alternating voices as the two women move through starkly different lives, until a devastating tragedy finally brings their worlds back together. It is a novel about mothers and daughters, about friendship that functions like kinship, about what we inherit and what we choose, and about how women hold each other up across every distance and difference.
