![]() ![]() The characters are well developed – all with flaws, all with positive qualities. In her latest book “An American Marriage” her characters deal with the realities of their place in this world. ![]() Tayari Jones does not sugar coat her stories. While this is first and foremost a love story, it is also a human story-an enchanting and beguiling one that explores what it means to be a black, college-educated professional in a Southern society that still judges in tones of black and white. Jones delves deep into what it means to be committed to love, how it feels to be betrayed and what it takes to forgive. ![]() ![]() But the genius of the book is in the writing: Each of the three characters narrates various chapters in the first person, so the reader fully appreciates and understands each one's point of view. Enter Andre, her best friend since childhood and (literally) the boy next door, who is-just to complicate matters-best friends with Roy. When he is incarcerated for a crime he did not commit, Celestial must go on with her life. The plot is heartbreaking: Celestial and Roy have a passionate and fiery marriage. This is my favorite kind of book: long on characters and short on plot.Įxpertly written by Tayari Jones, the book's characters are so real and so fully developed that they just pop off the page. ![]()
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