01137cam a2200265 4500 1147852494 TxAuBib ||||||s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 2017030582 9781616208776 1616208775 TxAuBib Jones, Tayari, author. An American marriage : a novel / by Tayari Jones. First edition. Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2018. 308 pages ; 24 cm. Newlyweds Celestial and Roy, the living embodiment of the New South, are settling into the routine of their life together when Roy is sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit. An insightful look into the lives of people who are bound and separated by forces beyond their control. African American families Fiction. African Americans Marriage Fiction. False imprisonment Fiction. Man-woman relationships Fiction. Atlanta (Ga) Fiction. Domestic fiction.