Tayari Jones 
American Marriage [EPUB ebook] 

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An explosive love story about a marriage interrupted.Could you put your life on hold for twelve years? A stunning love story about family, injustice and marriage, and three people at once bound and separated by forces beyond their control.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. They are settling into the routine of their life together, when they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn’t commit. Though fiercely independent, Celestial finds herself bereft and unmoored, taking comfort in Andre, her childhood friend, and best man at their wedding. As Roy’s time in prison passes, she is unable to hold on to the love that has been her center. After five years, Roy’s conviction is suddenly overturned, and he returns to Atlanta ready to resume their life together.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.’Tayari Jones is blessed with vision to see through to the surprising and devastating truths at the heart of ordinary lives, strength to wrest those truths free, and a gift of language to lay it all out, compelling and clear.’- Michael Chabon, author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay’A stunning, epic love story filled with breathtaking twists and turns, while bursting with realized and unrealized dreams.’- Edwidge Danticat, author of Breath, Eyes, Memory’A heartbreaking and genuinely suspenseful love story in which nobody’s wrong and everybody’s wounded.’- Tom Perrotta, author of Little Children

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 320 ● ISBN 9780143789611 ● Publisher Penguin Random House Australia ● Published 2018 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 5589536 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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