Edwidge Danticat, author of Breath, Eyes, Memory Skillfully crafted and beautifully written, An American Marriage is an exquisite, timely, and powerful novel that feels both urgent and indispensable.” “Tayari Jones’ An American Marriage is a stunning epic love story filled with breathtaking twists and turns, while bursting with realized and unrealized dreams. Tayari Jones has written a complex and important novel about people trapped in a tragic situation, struggling to reconcile their responsibilities and desires.” “ An American Marriage asks hard questions about injustice and betrayal, and answers them with a heartbreaking and genuinely suspenseful love story in which nobody's wrong and everybody's wounded.

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

Jacqueline Woodson, author of Another Brooklyn and Brown Girl Dreaming Reading it, I found myself angry as hell, laughing out loud, choking up and cheering. Tayari’s novel is timely, thoughtful, and beautifully written. “I love An American Marriage and I’m so excited for this book to be in the world. An American Marriage gorgeously evokes the New South as it explores mass incarceration on a personal level.' 'Tayari Jones provides an essential contemporary portrait of a marriage in this searing novel. 'Novelist Jones writes brilliantly about expectations and loss and racial injustice, and how love must evolve when our best laid plans go awry.' “In this unforgettable novel, Tayari Jones tackles hard questions about pride, betrayal, and our capacity to forgive.” “Tayari Jones has emerged as one of the most important voices of her generation.” 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.” spun with tender patience by Jones, who cradles each of these characters in a story that pulls our sympathies in different directions.

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