To explore everything that needs to be explored, you need time. The novel is not fast-paced, as it shouldn’t. So, to that, I give my most sincere compliments to the author.īut, I need to say that I didn’t like the end of the book. I wanted the words to be nothing more than pure fantasy, but they aren’t. I was enraged not by the book but the truth of the fiction. My experience reading An American Marriage: A Novel is of rage. What you have to do to survive when behind bars also is real!Īnd everything that happens on the outside, the search for comfort, the search for the truth, the way society judges you and how you are not really free even after being realized, are, again, true stories and feelings. The way prison breaks up relations is also a true story.
The trial part in which Roy is condemned without evidence other than the traumatized victim’s testimony is an everyday news piece. So, going by the pages, it is impossible not to relate the fiction to reality. Racism still is endemic in today’s society. The three of them represent a lot of black people in America and the world. Even though Celestial, Roy and Andre don’t exist, they are real.
Jones creates a fictional history that is not fictional at all. 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.Īn American Marriage: A Novel (2018) by Tayari Jones is a heartbreaking book, and what makes it so unbearable is how accurate the novel is. 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.
Synopsis: Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South.
Beautifully written.” -The New York Times Book Review
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