![]() Wrongfully incarcerated for twelve years, he must fight an endless trial of retribution to get back to the life that he was promised as a reward for his years of work. ![]() ![]() The central event is the false accusation that Roy has raped an older woman in a rural motel. There can be little doubt, however, that with this readable and quietly razor-sharp novel, Jones is surely destined for relevance.Ī novel about the marriage of two young African-Americans, Roy and Celestial, and what is essentially their fall from paradisiacal youth into the jaws of America’s most sinister institution, An American Marriage is an ambitious, but unpretentious work. Despite being Jones’s fourth novel, this is the first of her works to appear in print in the UK. ![]() In June, Tayari Jones’s An American Marriage won the Women’s Fiction Prize, snatching the prestige from a slew of esteemed novels – including Anna Burns’s 2018 Man Booker fiction winner Milkman – to carve her notch in the totem of the American canon. JAMIE SINGLETON reviews Tayari Jones’s novel, An American Marriage. ![]()
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