Next of KinBy: Gabrielle Hamilton In her long awaited new memoir, the author of the New York Times bestseller and James Beard Award winner Blood, Bones & Butter tells the raw and darkly humorous (People) story of her family's unexpected dissolution. Hamiltons voice is as singular and rollicking as ever in Next of Kin, but it feels rare and special to have it applied to the kind of complicated family history that so many of us only come to confront in adulthood