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An American Marriage is a contemporary tale of a relationship, of family and what happens to those relationships when something life-changingly tragic happens.

As the chapters flipped from Roy to Celestial to Andre and back again, we learn how the lives of these three people were changed the night Roy was falsely accused of a crime. In reading this novel, I thought of Brené Brown and how she says that our brains are wired for story-telling. We need to make sense of what is happening to us and create a narrative to gain order in the chaos. Jones seemed to expertly create that sense of story-telling as each character struggled to make sense of the chaos happening in their world.

The book seemed to flow easily and quickly for the first half, but I struggled a bit with the second half. It seemed to slow down too much and focused on just a few days over multiple chapters.

Overall, it was still a well-written and compelling story.