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Plot. Roy, a sales representative for a textbook company, and Celestial, an artist specializing in custom made baby dolls, are newlyweds who live in Atlanta. After their first year of marriage they travel to Eloe, Louisiana to visit Roy's parents.
Mar 7, 2018 · It is this sort of intimacy that Tayari Jones so searchingly explores in her new novel, An American Marriage, which follows the wrongful imprisonment of a young black man named Roy, and its...
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by Cristina Arreola. July 6, 2018. Kevin Winter/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images. If you follow Oprah's Book Club, you probably already know of — or may have already read — An American...
Feb 16, 2018 · Roy and Celestial Hamilton are those people — a young African-American golden couple who met on the campus of their historically black college. They marry soon after graduation and seem poised...
Jan 29, 2018 · 361,022 ratings29,480 reviews. Goodreads Choice Award. Nominee for Best Fiction (2018) Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career.
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An American Marriage is a masterpiece of storytelling, an intimate look into the souls of people who must reckon with the past while moving forward- with hope and pain- into the future. “It’s among Tayari’s many gifts that she can touch us soul to soul with her words.” — OPRAH WINFREY.
Jul 8, 2018 · An American Marriage revolves around three characters-- Roy and Celestial who are newlyweds, and Andre, Celestial's longtime best friend. Roy and Celestial's are together, but they also grate at each other. Their marriage is in complete chaos when Roy is convicted of rape one day.
