Once-in-a-While Book Club
Our next meeting is April 26, 2026 June 28th—rescheduled, and our book is Kin by Tayari Jones.
The June meeting is full, but contact me if you’d like to join us for future book club meetings! Our next date is November 1, 2026.
The Once-in-a-While Book Club is for book lovers who can’t commit to monthly meetings (I crack myself up). It’s an afternoon of bookish conversation that happens around my dining room table once-in-a-while. Read the book. Show up comfy and casual. I’ll do the rest.
Books we’ve read together so far
once-in-a-while book club DETAILS
Who:
Limited to the first ten book-loving humans who email me at LorrieTom@LorrieT.com and say they’d like to attend. Address supplied after your spot is confirmed. Feel free to share this with a friend!
What:
Read Kin by Tayari Jones by April 26, 2026 June 28, 2026.
Show up COMFY and CASUAL.
Light snacks, tea, and fizzy water served. If you’d like to bring something to share, that’s welcome but not expected.
When:
Sunday, April 26th June 28th from 3:30 to 5 PM PACIFIC.
Where:
My dining room table in my actual house! Address supplied after enrollment confirmation, but for your planning purposes, I live in Rancho Palos Verdes near Peninsula High School.
How:
Email me (LorrieTom@LorrieT.com) to see if there is still space and then I’ll send you my address.
Cost:
This one’s on me. It’s free.
More from the Publisher:
OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK 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.
"Kin is the kind of all-encompassing reading experience I’m always hoping to find: smart and funny and deftly profound. This is Tayari Jones’s very best work.” —Ann Patchett, author of Tom Lake
Vernice and Annie, two motherless daughters raised in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, have been best friends and neighbors 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 Spelman College, 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 and filling the bottomless hole left by her absence, 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.
If you have any questions, contact me.
And remember, even if you hate this book, come to the meeting cuz different opinions make for good conversations—at least in The Land of Lorrie Tom Writes (and Reads).
Always reading and writing,
Lorrie