Despite her guilt, Celestial decides to divorce Roy and marry Andre. The night she learns that Roy is about to be set free, Andre proposes. Roy refuses communication with Celestial for the following two years, however when his case is finally overturned on appeal and the local DA decides not to pursue the case, he optimistically reaches out to Celestial believing that there is still hope for their marriage as she has never divorced him.Ĭelestial has, in the meantime, fallen in love with her childhood best friend, Andre. After three years Celestial tells Roy that she no longer wishes to be his wife, causing a rift between them. Also during this time, Roy learns that his mother Olive has died. During this period Roy discovers that his cellmate Walter is actually his biological father and shares the news with Celestial.
When the case goes to trial Roy is given a sentence of 12 years.įor the first few years Roy and Celestial keep an active correspondence, though Roy grows frustrated as Celestial's career as an artist begins to take off and the gaps between their letters and visits grows longer. While Roy is in jail awaiting trial, Celestial discovers that she is pregnant and the two decide that she should have an abortion. Later that night the woman is raped and she calls the police, believing that Roy was the one who raped her. In the middle of their fight they take 15 minutes to cool off during which Roy exits their room and meets a woman around his mother's age with a broken arm whom he helps to her room. The newlyweds spend the night at the local Motel 6 where they feud after Roy tells Celestial that his father is not his biological father.
After their first year of marriage they travel to Eloe, Louisiana to visit Roy's parents.
Roy, a sales representative for a textbook company, and Celestial, an artist specializing in custom made baby dolls, are newlyweds who live in Atlanta. In an interview with The Paris Review Jones revealed that she initially wrote the book solely from Celestial's point of view and decided to add multiple points of view after her initial readers reacted negatively to Celestial. Their lives are torn apart when Roy is wrongfully convicted of a rape he did not commit. The novel focuses on the marriage of a middle-class African-American couple, Celestial and Roy, who live in Atlanta, Georgia. The novel also won the 2019 Women's Prize for Fiction. In February 2018, the novel was chosen for Oprah's Book Club 2.0. It is her fourth novel and was published by Algonquin Books on February 6, 2018. An American Marriage is a novel by the American author Tayari Jones.
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