10% off all books and free delivery over £40
Buy from our bookstore and 25% of the cover price will be given to a school of your choice to buy more books. *15% of eBooks.

Kind of Kin

View All Editions

The selected edition of this book is not available to buy right now.
Add To Wishlist
Write A Review

About

Kind of Kin Synopsis

Your Grandpa is a felon and a Christian. He says he's a felon because he's a Christian. So says Aunt Sweet to her nephew Dustin, when her father, who has been raising Dustin, is arrested for hiding migrant workers. The law that makes harbouring 'illegals' an offence is the brainchild of the ferociously ambitious Oklahoma politician Monica Moorehouse. Aunt Sweet takes Dustin in, but Dustin is bullied by her son, and so goes on the run, aided by an illegal the sheriffs didn't find. Meanwhile, Sweet is asked by Dustin's married sister to hide her husband, a Mexican without papers. As Grandpa Brown holds fast to his beliefs and Dustin remains missing, Aunt Sweet fights to hold the family together, and to do what seems right. In a gripping and compelling narrative, Kind of Kin lays bare the consequences of a law that exiles workers, turns friends into informers, and tears apart families. It also shows how some - and ultimately a whole town - will unite to protect their own.

About This Edition

ISBN: 9781782390138
Publication date: 1st May 2014
Author: Rilla Askew
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 432 pages
Primary Genre Modern and Contemporary Fiction
Recommendations:

Press Reviews

Author

You Might Also Like...

Kalooki Nights

Howard Jacobson

Paperback

In Stock

£9.89 £10.99

Politics

Adam Thirlwell

Paperback

Print on Demand

£14.39 £15.99

Mirror, Shoulder, Signal

Dorthe Nors

Paperback

In Stock

£8.09 £8.99

Night Watch

Sarah Waters

Paperback

In Stock

£9.89 £10.99

Lila

Marilynne Robinson

Paperback

In Stock

£8.99 £9.99

When All is Said

Anne Griffin

Paperback

In Stock

£8.99 £9.99