5/23/2023 0 Comments An american marriage review![]() ![]() ![]() The two struggle to maintain their relationship as Celestial’s career takes off, while Roy commits his 12-year sentence. In an unfortunate turn of events, Roy is imprisoned in spite of his innocence. The novel is about the lives of a newly married couple, Roy and Celestial, trying to live the American Dream, both at the peak of their careers. “But how you feel love and understand love are two different things.” Tayari Jones, An American Marriage In the spirit of these two celebrations, I thought of revisiting Jones’s An American Marriage and see if the reading and blogging community also thought of the same thing. I got a chance to meet Jones this month at the Emirates Literature Festival in Dubai and I was reminded of the love story between the novel’s main characters Celestial and Roy.įebruary is significant for many reasons (and this one’s a leap year too!): it’s Black History Month and the (dreaded or eagerly awaited) Valentine’s Day. Tayari Jones’s book An American Marriage may have come out in 2018 but its force and resonance is still as strong to this day. ![]()
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