The Official Rogue Book Club
AMERICAN MARRIAGE: A NOVEL BY TAYARI JONES
THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 6 PM
Join us a the next meeting of the Crocker Art Museum’s Official Rogue Book Club! Each month, readers, art-lovers, and special guests gather together to share and discuss books that inspire us to look at art and life in new and unexpected ways. This month, we are taking on An American Marriage: A Novel by
Tayari Jones, a 2018 Oprah Book Club Selection.
Newlyweds Celestial and Roy embody both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive and she is 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. A deeply insightful look into the hearts and minds of three people who are at once bound and separated by forces beyond their control, An American Marriage has been described as “masterpiece of storytelling.” The stirring tale will inspire a look at love stories represented in the Crocker’s collection and stir conversations about the main character's call to “reckon with the past while moving forward - with hope and pain - into the future” (a fitting theme for our current times).
New York Times best-selling author Tayari Jones has written four novels. An American Marriage was awarded the Women’s Prize for Fiction (formerly known as the Orange Prize), the Aspen Words Prize, and an NAACP Image Award. Jones is a graduate of Spelman College, University of Iowa, and Arizona State University. She is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, has also been a recipient of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, a United States Artist Fellowship, NEA Fellowship, and Radcliffe Institute Bunting Fellowship. Her third novel, Silver Sparrow was added to the NEA Big Read Library of classics in 2016.
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