**BOOK SPOILERS**

• What is the most recent book you’ve read? How did you start reading it?
  • “I just finished Kin by Tayari Jones…I read her previous book, An American Marriage. Since I liked that one, I decided to buy this one.”
• What is the book about?
  • “The book is about two girls who grow up together, both without their mothers for different reasons in the Jim Crow era, whose lives went in different directions and trajectories, but then they come back together and consider themselves sisters.”
• Was the book a slow start, or were you hooked?
  • “I was hooked. I really liked the author’s writing style. It was a book where there was a shift in voice in each chapter. The book goes back and forth between the two main characters..So while I was reading one person’s chapter, I got to see what the other was up to.”
• Which character do you feel most connected to?
  • “I feel connected to Annie, and her search for her identity, as she questions who she is to herself and to her family.”
• How did this book change or confirm any previous held opinions or perspectives?
  • “I try to read stories that are outside of my own actual life experiences. Reading a book set before the civil rights movement gave me a different perspective about what life choices there were for black people and for these two girls, especially under the circumstances of their lives. ”
• Would you recommend this book to your students? Why?
  • “ Yes, because I would always encourage people to read outside of their own perspective. It is interesting to learn about the black community of that time, how they were perceived, whether they came from cities or the country, or with their mother, without a mother, religious, or not religious. I think that every student at Northside, if they read the book, there would be things they would learn.”
• What star rating would you give this book?
  • “I give it four out of five stars.”