Tayari Jones, author of ‘An American Marriage,’ to speak at University of West Georgia

Copies of her highly acclaimed fourth novel, which was an Oprah Book Club selection, will be given to students in order to spark a campus-wide conversation, according to a release about the event.

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“An American Marriage” tells the story of newlyweds Celestial and Roy. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career; however, as they settle into their life together, Roy is arrested and sentenced to 12 years for a crime he did not commit.

The story unfolds partly through letters, but as he is released and they try to rebuild a  life together.

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Jones, a graduate of Spelman College, the University of Iowa and Arizona State University, is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University and an A.D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University.

Jones is the author of three other novels, “Leaving Atlanta,” inspired by her experiences growing up during the Atlanta child murders, “The Untelling,” and “Silver Sparrow.”