An American Marriage

★★★☆☆
Written By Muhan Zhang
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By Tayari Jones

Publication Year: 2018

Type: Fiction

Genre: contemporary, romance

Read on 2018-11-17

View additional specs on this book in Muhan’s 2018 Reading Survey ➞

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★★★☆☆

The main characters are profoundly irritating, occasionally to the point of making me want to stop reading. Nevertheless, this books is undeniably a masterfully written character-driven meditation on marriage, mass incarceration, and the African-American experience. Some of my favourite quotes from the book below:

“Marriage is like grafting a limb onto a tree trunk. You have the limb, freshly sliced, dripping sap and smelling of springtime, and then you have the mother trees stripped off her protective bark, gouged and ready to receive this new addition.” - Celestial.

“‘I don’t give a damn about you and your feelings. Only thing hat matters to me is my boy.’” - Big Roy to Andre.

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