An American Marriage
Tayari Jones, 2018
A newly married couple's life is split open by circumstance, and the novel asks what marriage owes when the future they planned is no longer available.
Tayari Jones
An American Marriage was an Oprah's Book Club pick in 2018 and won the 2019 Women's Prize for Fiction.
Feels like love, tenderness and home.
What it costs to walk back into a house love has left.
Sometimes it’s exhausting for me to simply walk into the house. I try and calm myself, remember that I’ve lived alone before. Sleeping by myself didn’t kill me then and will not kill me now. But this what loss has taught me of love. Our house isn’t simply empty, our home has been emptied. Love makes a place in your life, it makes a place for itself in your bed. Invisibly, it makes a place in your body, rerouting all your blood vessels, throbbing right alongside your heart. When it’s gone, nothing is whole again. Books by Tayari Jones
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