Tayari Jones is the internationally bestselling author of four novels, most recently An American Marriage, winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2019. Jones is the recipient of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, a United States Artist Fellowship, NEA Fellowship and a Radcliffe Institute Bunting Fellowship. She is also a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Born in Atlanta, Jones is a graduate of Spelman College, University of Iowa, and Arizona State University. She is currently professor of Creative Writing at Emory University and an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University.
'A marvellous feat of storytelling.' Guardian
'If you haven't read it yet, now is the time.' Sunday Times
Style
'Haunting...beautifully written.' New York Times Book
Review
'It's among Tayari's many gifts that she can touch us soul to soul
with her words.' Oprah Winfrey
'Epic...transcendent…triumphant.' Elle
'The end of this beautiful novel made me cry. Jones writes with
intelligence and a lively wit, but there’s more – a warmth that
forces you to care about these people as if you had met them.' The
Times
'Jones sheds a haunting light on the all-encompassing nature of
racial injustice.' Daily Mail, Best Summer Reads
'Loyalty, duty, family, secrets and anger are gently, yet
powerfully woven through every page...the reader is given a sense
of intimacy that is a rare gift from an author.' Naga
Munchetty, 2016 judge of the Women's Prize for Fiction
'A magnificent, painful story of love and
justice.' Sainsbury's Magazine, Book Club Choice
'It is a story of love, loss and loyalty, the resilience of the
human spirit painted on a big political canvas that shines a light
on today's America... The prose is luminous, striking and utterly
moving.' Prof. Kate Williams, Chair of Judges, The Women's
Prize for Fiction
'Jones writes brilliantly about expectations and loss and racial
injustice, and how love must evolve when our best laid plans go
awry.' Esquire
'Exquisitely written… Powerful.’ Evening Standard
'[An] incredible love story... Jones's prose is chock-full of
lyricism, grace and wisdom. You will never forget the story of
Celestial and Roy.' Observer
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