Secrets – how honest should you be in a relationshipįoreshadowing is carefully managed by the slow drip of secrets, culminating in excruciating reveals – drawing Roy and Celestial further apart rather than binding them closer together. All the while knowing this bad event is about to happen, there is growing dread that there is more, maybe worse to come. Whilst listening in my mind’s eye I could visualise the landscape and scenes being played out.Įven though you know what’s coming – the big plot point – it’s the journey – how she takes us there and the aftermath that is so well done. The author’s lyrical and vivid presentation is perfectly suited to a visual and audible performance. Can’t speak to the veracity of the accents but the power and diction were sublime.
I listened to the audiobook narrated by Sean Crisden and Elsa Davis and was blown away by their performance. In this deft exploration of love, loyalty, race, justice, and both Black masculinity and Black womanhood in 21st century America, Jones achieves that most-elusive of all literary goals: the Great American Novel. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, 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. Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. An American Marriage is emphatically about the injustice of wrongly incarcerated black males in America, however there are other prevailing themes threaded throughout, most notably marriage and the insidious power of secrets.
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