St. Marys Community Public Library is featuring American Marriage by New York Times bestselling author Tayari Jones in a discussion on Thursday July 14th, 2022. We will meet from 6:00pm to 7:00pm in the library meeting room. Books are available at the library for checking out and reading prior to our discussion.
Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive and she is artist on the brink of an exciting career. They are settling into the routine of their life together when they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn’t commit. Though fiercely independent, Celestial finds herself bereft and unmoored, taking comfort in Andre, her childhood friend, and best man at their wedding. As Roy’s time in prison passes, she is unable to hold on to the love that has been her center. After five years, Roy’s conviction is suddenly overturned, and he returns to Atlanta ready to resume their life together.
“Tayari Jones is blessed with vision to see through to the surprising and devastating truths at the heart of ordinary lives, strength to wrest those truths free, and a gift of language to lay it all out, compelling and clear. That has been true from her very first book, but with An American Marriage that vision, that strength and that truth-telling voice have found a new level of artistry and power,’ said Michael Chabon, author of Moonglow: A Novel.
Check out a copy of American Marriage at the library for reading prior to our discussion.
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Book Discussion – An American Marriage
