6/26/2023 0 Comments Book review an american marriage![]() ![]() ![]() Roy and Celestial are smitten - really, they are, they tell themselves. Celestial is the artistic daughter of a scientist-inventor and his wife. ![]() Roy is an up-and-coming business executive in Atlanta, a Morehouse man from a working-class family who thinks he married up. Marriage uncovers the truths that are revealed in the nearly invisible cracks that emerge in relationships, and the devastating harm in secrets of omission. Tayari Jones’ brilliant and heartbreaking novel An American Marriage (Algonquin, 306 pp., ★★★★ out of four) - announced Tuesday as the latest selection of Oprah's Book Club - exposes the intimate toll of an American shame: the unjust imprisonment of black men. Celestial and Roy are still newlyweds when a visit to Roy’s hometown in small-town Louisiana ends with Roy wrongly accused of rape. ![]()
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