This is Precious's diary, in which she honestly records her relationships and her life. Placed in an alternative teaching programme, she learns to read and write. gnant by her own father for the second time, and kicked out of school. This is the story of Precious Jones, a sixteen year old illiterate black girl who has never been out of Harlem. * READ THE NOVEL THAT INSPIRED THE FILM PRECIOUS * This 25th Anniversary Edition includes a new preface from Tayari Jones, and a new afterword by the author. '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 Read more ISBNīy Sapphire Introduction by Jones, Tayari 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. After five years, Roy's conviction is suddenly overturned, and he returns to Atlanta ready to resume their life together. As Roy's time in prison passes, she is unable to hold on to the love that has been her center. Though fiercely independent, Celestial finds herself bereft and unmoored, taking comfort in Andre, her childhood friend, and best man at their wedding. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn't commit. They are settling into the routine of their life together, when they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. He is a young executive and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. mbodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. 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.
An American Marriage (Trade Paperback / Paperback)Īn explosive love story about a marriage interrupted.
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