I'm Gilbert Cruz, and this is the book review from The New York Times.

On this week's episode, our monthly book club discussion.

This time, our host, M.J. Franklin, leads a conversation about Kin, the wonderful new novel from Tyari Jones.

MJ, over to you.

Hello, and welcome to another book club episode of The book review. My name is M.J. Franklin.

I'm an editor here at the New York Times Book Review. And this week for Book Club, we're chatting about Kin by Tayari Jones.

I'm just going to lay my cards out on the table and say very early, I love this book.

I love this book a lot, and I've been sitting on this book for a while because as editors,

we get to read early copies of things, and I've just been so eager to talk about this with other readers.

You can check me on that.

In January, we published a Winter Books Pre preview episode, and I mentioned how much I love

this book there. But I want to say, I'm not alone in my enthusiasm. This book, Terry Jones'

fifth, was an instant New York Times bestseller. It was an Oprah Book Club pick two. It

received a spate of rave reviews. It feels like it's kid in season. A lot of us are reading it. And now, three of us are talking about it.

I am joined in the studio by a panel of my esteemed colleagues. First with us is Liz Egan. Hi, Liz. Thank you for

joining us. Thank you for having me. Liz, you are going to be

kind of in the hot seat as an expert because you profiled Tayari Jones, correct? I did, yes.

Tell us, what does that mean? Well, I flew to Atlanta for the first time ever, and I joined

Tayari Jones at a dinner for booksellers, and then I went to her house the next day

and interviewed her there for about two hours and thoroughly enjoyed myself.

So you really got the story behind the story.

I did. I did. So I'm excited to hear your expertise, and also just your opinions on the book.

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