The plot is related in segments through the eyes of the three main protagonists: the husband, 31 and an upwardly mobile executive when arrested the wife, from a wealthy family and trying to launch her business selling very expensive designer dolls and her best friend who, by chance had introduced her to her husband. legal system rather slip into the background and the book is much more about the people involved. Instead, we have the destruction of their ideals and the realities of whether discovering you are pregnant when your partner has just been banged up is such good news whether being a prison wife is what everyone wants or can cope with learning why bin liners are so sought after in jails etc, so that the apparent inadequacies of the U.S. I was assuming we were in for the stoic struggle for justice and the happy ending when he is finally released, but there was none of that. I thought from the dust cover that the plot sounded interesting, but did not anticipate how it would develop which far exceeded my expectations. His wife is his alibi witness but is not believed, so he gets 12 years.
It’s about an African-American couple whose lives are shattered when he is arrested for a rape that he did not commit. “An American Marriage” is her most successful to date, possibly helped by being picked by Oprah Winfrey for her Book Club Barack Obama including it in his summer reading list and it then winning the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction. Tayari Jones is a 48-year-old from Atlanta, Georgia, and seems to have set all four of her novels there, so is plainly of the very sensible “stick to what you know” school of thought.
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