An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

Timely, thoughtful, and BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN . . . A gem of a book. Jacqueline Woodson HEARTBREAKING AND GENUINELY SUSPENSEFUL. Complex and important. Tom Perrotta COMPELLING. Washington Post

“Timely, thoughtful, and BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN . . . A gem of a book.”

—Jacqueline Woodson

“HEARTBREAKING AND GENUINELY SUSPENSEFUL. Complex and important.”

—Tom Perrotta

“COMPELLING.”

—Washington Post

“A literary page-turner that’s IMPOSSIBLE TO PUT DOWN.”

—The Los Angeles Times

“HOLDS THE READER FROM THE FIRST PAGE TO LAST, with her compassionate observation, her clear-eyed insight and her beautifully written and complex characters.”

—Amy Bloom

“Tayari Jones is blessed with vision to see through to the SURPRISING AND DEVASTATING truths at the heart of ordinary lives.”

—Michael Chabon

“Subtle, well-crafted, and powerful . . . This is, at its heart, a love story, but a love story warped by racial injustice. And, in it, Jones suggests that racial injustice haunts the African-American story.”

—Kirkus Reviews, starred review

“Jones crafts an affecting tale that explores marriage, family, regret, and other feelings made all the more resonant by her well-drawn characters and their intricate conflicts of heart and mind.”

—Booklist

“Tayari Jones provides an essential contemporary portrait of a marriage in this searing novel. An American Marriage gorgeously evokes the New South as it explores mass incarceration on a personal level."

—Entertainment Weekly

“A tense and timely love story. Told in letters and from alternating perspectives, packed with brave questions about race and class, An American Marriage is the perfect book-club book – one the whole group will finish and discuss with conviction.”

—People, Book of the Week

“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.”

—Washington Post

“Utterly gripping novel . . . 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.”

—Paste Magazine

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

—Esquire

“Nuanced and evocative . . . An American Marriage is 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.”

—BBC.com

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