An American Marriage: WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION, 2019 - Couverture souple

Haunting...beautifully written.

Epic...transcendent...triumphant.

It s among Tayari s many gifts that she can touch us soul to soul with her words.

Compelling...spun with tender patience by Jones, who cradles each of these characters in a story that pulls our sympathies in different directions. She never ignores their flaws, their perfectly human tendency toward self-justification, but she also captures their longing to be kind, to be just, to somehow behave well despite the contradictory desires of the heart.

Jones writes brilliantly about expectations and loss and racial injustice, and how love must evolve when our best laid plans go awry.

Nuanced and evocative... A compelling exploration of the thorny conflicts that drive us apart and bind us, the distorting weight of racism, and how commitment looks across time and generations.

Tayari Jones is blessed with vision to see through to the surprising and devastating truths at the heart of ordinary lives, strength to wrest those truths free, and a gift of language to lay it all out, compelling and clear. That has been true from her very first book, but with An American Marriage that vision, that strength, and that truth-telling voice have found a new level of artistry and power.

Heart-wrenching... An American Marriage poses profound questions about what we owe each other, and what injustices we allow to persist.

I love An American Marriage and I m so excited for this book to be in the world. Tayari s novel is timely, thoughtful, and beautifully written. Reading it, I found myself angry as hell, laughing out loud, choking up and cheering. A gem of a book.

A heart-breaking and genuinely suspenseful love story... Tayari Jones has written a complex and important novel about people trapped in a tragic situation, struggling to reconcile their responsibilities and desires.

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

OPRAH S BOOK CLUB 2018 SELECTION

Haunting...beautifully written. The New York Times Book Review

Compelling. The Washington Post

Epic...transcendent...triumphant. Elle

It s among Tayari s many gifts that she can touch us soul to soul with her words. Oprah Winfrey

Tayari Jones vision, strength, and truth-telling voice have found a new level of artistry and power. Michael Chabon, author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn t commit. Though fiercely independent, Celestial finds herself bereft and unmoored, taking comfort in Andre, her childhood friend, and best man at their wedding. As Roy s time in prison passes, she struggles to hold on to the love that has been her centre. When his conviction is suddenly overturned, he returns to Atlanta ready to resume their life together.
 
This stirring love story is a profoundly insightful look into the hearts and minds of three people who are at once bound and separated by forces beyond their control. An American Marriage is a masterpiece of storytelling, an intimate look deep into the souls of people who must reckon with the past while moving forward with hope and pain into the future.