Ultimately, Jones found a way to rewrite An American Marriage to her satisfaction-with inspiration from Toni Morrison. Not wanting to alienate anyone, but frustrated by the backlash, she considered abandoning the book. At times, Jones feared she might actually lose friends over her manuscript. That turned out to be too radical a gesture for some of Jones’s early readers, who were profoundly threatened by the way Roy’s suffering had been decentered. Though the plot hinges upon the wrongful imprisonment of Roy, a black man sent to prison for a rape he did not commit, the story, as Jones first wrote it, was told solely from the perspective of Celestial, his wife. She is currently a Professor of Creative Writing at Emory University.An American Marriage, Tayari Jones’s bestselling new novel, was almost never published. Tayari Jones is the author of the novels Leaving Atlanta, The Untelling, Silver Sparrow, and An American Marriage. They are the same but not interchangeable. One is the left shoe and the other is the right. Sometimes when you like where you end up, you don’t care how you got there. There are too many loose ends in the world in need of knots. Much of life is timing and circumstance, I see that now.īut how you feel love and understand love are two different things. 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. 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. After five years, Roy’s conviction is suddenly overturned, and he returns to Atlanta ready to resume their life together. As Roy’s time in prison passes, she is unable to hold on to the love that has been her center.
Though fiercely independent, Celestial finds herself bereft and unmoored, taking comfort in Andre, her childhood friend, and best man at their wedding. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn’t commit. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career.
Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South.
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