When Roy is released after only five years, the life Celestial has created in his absence begins caving in and Celestial finds herself having to make difficult decisions regarding how to move forward. Unmoored by Roy’s imprisonment, Celestial finds comfort and romance in her childhood friend and Roy’s best man at their wedding, Andre. Celestial knows he is innocent of the crime, however, as Roy was with her at the time the rape took place. First acquainted in college, Celestial and Roy are the picture of an upwardly mobile young black couple in the American South: Roy is climbing his way up the corporate ladder and Celestial is an artist, gaining recognition for her handmade dolls.Ĭelestial and Roy have only been married for a little more than a year when Roy is arrested and sentenced to 12 years in prison for raping a woman.
It would be difficult to be a reader in 2018 and not at least have heard of Tayari Jones’ An American Marriage, a New York Times Bestseller, National Book Award nominee, and the first choice of the year for Oprah’s Book Club it has also recently been optioned by Harpo Productions to be turned into a film.Īn American Marriage focuses on Celestial and Roy’s young marriage. You have the limb, freshly sliced, dripping sap, and smelling of springtime, and then you have the mother tree stripped of her protective bark, gouged and ready to receive this new addition.” “Marriage is like grafting a limb onto a tree trunk. Genre: General fiction, Commercial fiction
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2018
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