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An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

4.0

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I listened to the audiobook of this one, and finished it in one lazy day. Great story told from multiple POVs (heads up for you 2019 Popsugar participants). Overview: tragedy strikes newlyweds Roy and Celestial, in what is an all too familiar occurrence in America. At no fault of their own, their picture perfect life is set on a different course and brings up a number of interesting questions, and how false imprisonment punishes more than just the accused. I don’t know if I would have done what Celestial did, but at the same time - she and Roy are both in a very hard situation and marriages have dissolved before far less trying circumstances. At the core of this book is the very real social issue concerning African Americans being unjustly accused and incarcerated at a higher rate than other groups of people. The ending isn’t the happy ending the reader hopes for, but it is a happy ending none the less.