‘The People Are the Real Power’: Tayari Jones’ An American Marriage Wins the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction

By Maiysha Kai via https://theglowup.theroot.com

There is grace, and then, there is the kind of grace that unconditional, enduring love requires; the kind of love Tayari Jones’ Celestial and Roy are struggling to keep alive in her celebrated novel, An American Marriage.

Already published in several countries and on pretty much every recommended reading list of 2018 (including Oprah’s, the Obamas’ and ours) Jones’ searing novel of black love just garnered the author another incredible honor: the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction.

To understand the significance of this particular win, the 23-year-old award, open to female English-language writers, garners …

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