![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() An American Marriage is a masterpiece of storytelling, an intimate look deep into the souls of people who must reckon with the past while moving forward-with hope and pain-into the future. This stirring love story is a profoundly insightful look into the hearts and minds of three people who are at once bound and separated by forces beyond their control. After five years, Roy’s conviction is suddenly overturned, and he returns to Atlanta ready to resume their life together. Though fiercely independent, Celestial finds herself bereft and unmoored, taking comfort in Andre, her childhood friend, and best man at their wedding.Īs Roy’s time in prison passes, she is unable to hold on to the love that has been her center. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn’t commit. The book also includes Yee’s lush watercolor illustrations. ![]() He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career.īut as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. With a narrative assist from Stanton, the result is a consistently titillating and often moving story of human struggle as well as an insider glimpse into the days when Times Square was considered the Big Apple’s gloriously unpolished underbelly. Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. ![]()
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