Kind of Kin

Rilla Askew

ISBN 10: 0062198793 / ISBN 13: 9780062198792

Published by Ecco Press January 2013, 2013

About this Item

First edition stated, first printing with complete number line. A Fine copy in like dustjacket. Signed by Askew on the title page.

Seller Inventory # 339253

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Kind of Kin
• Publisher: Ecco Press January 2013
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0062198793
• ISBN 13: 9780062198792
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Printing: First Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed By Author
• Seller catalogs:
  • Modern First Editions

About this title

Synopsis

In Kind of Kin by award-winning author Rilla Askew, when a church-going, community-loved, family man is caught hiding a barn-full of illegal immigrant workers, he is arrested and sent to prison. This shocking development sends ripples through the town—dividing neighbors, causing riffs amongst his family, and spurring controversy across the state.

Using new laws in Oklahoma and Alabama as inspiration, Kind of Kin is a story of self-serving lawmakers and complicated lawbreakers, Christian principle and political scapegoating.

Rilla Askew’s funny and poignant novel explores what happens when upstanding people are pushed too far—and how an ad-hoc family, and ultimately, an entire town, will unite to protect its own.

About the Author

Rilla Askew received a 2009 Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She is the author of four novels, and has been nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Dublin IMPAC Prize, and is a three-time recipient of the Oklahoma Book Award.