Christi Stewart-Brown

When 13-year-old Jude "accidentally" finds his birth certificate in his mother's underwear drawer, his world is turned upside down. He knew he was adopted, but the birth certificate reveals something he could never have imagined in his wildest dreams. Jude has a blood family nearby-and not just a blood family, a blood relative who is as close as close can get. The document leads to a journey back in time, or so it seems to Jude. The kin he has never met reside in the wilds of Appalachia, living off the land, barely subsisting. Kin is a humorous adventure story of a spoiled American teen with a fondness for explosives and electronics who is thrust into a community that is virtually 100 years behind the times.