In an interview with The Paris Review Jones revealed that she initially wrote the book solely from Celestial's point of view and decided to add multiple points of view after her initial readers reacted negatively to Celestial. Their lives are torn apart when Roy is wrongfully convicted of a rape he did not commit. The novel focuses on the marriage of a middle-class African-American couple, Celestial and Roy, who live in Atlanta, Georgia. The novel also won the 2019 Women's Prize for Fiction. In February 2018, the novel was chosen for Oprah's Book Club 2.0. It is her fourth novel and was published by Algonquin Books on February 6, 2018. An American Marriage is a novel by the American author Tayari Jones.
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