An American Marriage has been selected as the 2018 Book of the Year by Apple Books. In their review, Apple Books writes, “This may be the most moving love-triangle story we’ve ever read… Tayari Jones has written an unshakable novel … Continue reading →
An American Marriage has been selected by The New York Times Book Review and The Washington Post as one of the most notable works of fiction of 2018. An American Marriage sits as top selections on both lists, and in a post to her official Facebook page, … Continue reading →
An American Marriage has been selected for the 2019 Aspen Words Literary Prize Longlist. Comprised of eleven novels, five short-story collections, and thirteen overall literary debuts, final-round shortlist nominees will be announced on February 20th, 2019, followed by a ceremony in New … Continue reading →
An American Marriage has been selected for the 2018 Favorites of Favorites LibraryReads List. Representing the books librarians loved recommending most this year, librarian Jennifer Alexander from the St. Louis County Library in St. Louis, Missouri writes, “Celestial and Roy are newly married … Continue reading →
An American Marraige has been selected by TIME Magazine as one of the best fiction books of 2018. Ranking third on their list of ten, TIME’s Lucy Feldman writes, “In Jones’ novel, Atlanta couple Celestial and Roy are married for only a year … Continue reading →
In an essay for The New York Times, Tayari Jones celebrates the luminary but oft-forgotten Ann Petry, who, as a black female author in 1946, sold over 1.5 million copies of her seminal novel, The Street. In arguing for a Petry revival, and … Continue reading →
In an IDEAS essay for TIME Magazine, Tayari Jones discusses America’s current political moment, and the dangerous obsession behind a moral middle. On finding common ground in the wake of school shootings, family separation, and more, Tayari writes, “The middle is a point equidistant … Continue reading →
An American Marriage has been selected as a finalist for GoodReads’ 10th Annual GoodReads Choice Awards in the 2018 Best of Fiction Category. Voting is open until November 4th, and votes can be cast once each day until online voting closes. … Continue reading →
Tayari Jones is honored to have been selected for Ebony Magazine’s 2018 EBONY Power 100 List. On the significance of this year’s honorees, Forbes writes, “[the list recognizes] and celebrate[s] the most inspiring and influential leaders of color who are impacting … Continue reading →
An American Marriage has been selected for the 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction Longlist. A six-title shortlist (three fiction titles, three nonfiction titles,) will be announced on October 24, 2018. The two winners (fiction, nonfiction) will be announced in … Continue reading →
Tayari Jones joins The New York Times‘ Lauretta Charlton for a conversation on Black Sisterhood, Anita Hill, and Christine Blasey Ford in the wake of the Kavanaugh Hearings. On Black Feminism, Ms. Jones remarks: “Black women’s feminist contributions are very often erased. But … Continue reading →
Tayari Jones is honored to have delivered remarks at the 2018 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Awards–the only national literary foundation dedicated to awarding exclusively female writers with outstanding contributions to fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. In her remarks to this year’s … Continue reading →
An American Marriage has been selected for the 2018 National Book Award Longlist for Fiction,. The longlist will be whittled down to a shortlist of five books, which will be announced Oct. 10. The winner will be revealed at a ceremony in New York on Nov. 14.
For the complete 2018 National Book Awards Longlist for Fiction, click here.
Literacy Partners provides excerpts of over two hundred books, poems, and short stories to New Yorkers on and off the subway. For an excerpt of An American Marriage, click here. … Continue reading →
An American Marriage has been chosen for President Barack Obama’s 2018 Summer Reading List. In a Facebook post, the President wrote: “One of my favorite parts of summer is deciding what to read when things slow down just a bit, whether it’s … Continue reading →
