Kind of Kin: When Immigration Law Threatens an Oklahoma Family, a Town Unites Against Deportation

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.