Jones understands love and loss and writes with passion and precision about the forces that move us all from one to another.

After five years, Roy’s conviction is suddenly overturned, and he returns to Atlanta ready to resume their life together.Īn American Marriage is a masterpiece of storytelling, an intimate look into the souls of people who must reckon with the past while moving forward - with hope and pain - into the future. An American Marriage holds the reader from first page to last, with her compassionate observation, her clear-eyed insight and her beautifully written and complex characters. 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. 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. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn’t commit. They are settling into the routine of their life together, when they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. The price for the book starts from 27.50 on Amazon and is available from 5 sellers at the moment. Currently, the best offer comes from and is for the book in condition. He is a young executive and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. You can buy the An American Marriage book at one of 20+ online bookstores with BookScouter, the website that helps find the best deal across the web. Newlyweds, Celestial and Roy, are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. Winner of the 2019 Women’s Prize for FictionĬould you put your life on hold for twelve years? A stunning love story about family, injustice and marriage, and three people at once bound and separated by forces beyond their control. Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of the American Dream.

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