Best Of: Delroy Lindo / Tayari Jones on ‘Kin’
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From WHYY in Philadelphia, this is Fresh Air Weekend. I'm Tanya Mosley. Today, Delroy Lindo. He stars as Delta Slim in Sinners as a haunted blues musician. It's a performance that has earned Lindo his first Academy Award nomination.
He says he wants the award, but he also won't let it define him. I have never taken my marbles and gone home as a result of whatever disappointments the vicissitudes of the industry And I want to believe and I want to claim that I will not do that now. I will continue working. Also, we hear from novelist Tayari Jones.
Her new book, Kin, is a story of two motherless girls in 1950s Louisiana who become each other's chosen family. The idea for the book came from her own experience of losing a friend. When you're friends with someone, you know, your name will not be listed in any obituary. But it breaks your heart to lose your friend. That's coming up on Fresh Air Weekend.
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