An American Marriage
Tayari Jones • 2018
Devastation Rating
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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