An American Marriage

Tayari Jones 2018

Devastation Rating

Emotionally Ruined
betrayal love injustice literary fiction

Our Take

Roy is wrongfully imprisoned and Celestial cannot wait. Jones writes the betrayal not as villainy but as survival — what happens when love meets an impossible circumstance and someone has to choose themselves. The letters between them are a slow unravelling of everything they promised.

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