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Tayari Jones is the author of the novels Leaving Atlanta, The Untelling, Silver Sparrow, and An American Marriage (Algonquin Books, February 2018). Her writing has appeared in Tin House, The Believer, The New York Times, and Callaloo. A member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, she has also been a recipient of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, Lifetime Achievement Award in Fine Arts from the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, United States Artist Fellowship, NEA Fellowship and Radcliffe Institute Bunting Fellowship. Silver Sparrow was named a #1 Indie Next Pick by booksellers in 2011, and the NEA added it to its Big Read Library of classics in 2016. Jones is a graduate of Spelman College, University of Iowa, and Arizona State Univers ...more

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Tayari Jones has been awarded a Civitella Ranieri Writing Fellowship. Located in a 15th century castle in the Umbrian region of Italy, Civitella is a residency program for international writers, composers, and visual artists. Since 1995, Civitella has hosted more than 900 Fellows and Director’s Guests. The Center enables its Fellows to pursue their work and to exchange ideas in a unique and inspir

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	An American Marriage 3.96 avg rating — 242,787 ratings — published 2018 — 65 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“But home isn't where you land; home is where you launch. You can't pick your home any more than you can choose your family. In poker, you get five cards. Three of them you can swap out, but two are yours to keep: family and native land.”
― Tayari Jones, An American Marriage

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“Much of life is timing and circumstance, I see that now.”
― Tayari Jones, An American Marriage

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“Sometimes it's exhausting for me to simply walk into the house. I try and calm myself, remember that I've lived alone before. Sleeping by myself didn't kill me then and will not kill me now. But this what loss has taught me of love. Our house isn't simply empty, our home has been emptied. Love makes a place in your life, it makes a place for itself in your bed. Invisibly, it makes a place in your body, rerouting all your blood vessels, throbbing right alongside your heart. When it's gone, nothing is whole again.”
― Tayari Jones, An American Marriage

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BOTM October- Side Reads

1st Poll- top 5 books move on to the next poll

The Sandcastle Girls

by Chris Bohjalian

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Some Luck

by Jane Smiley

8 votes, 11.6%

The Shadow of the Wind

by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

7 votes, 10.1%

Maya's Notebook

by Isabel Allende

7 votes, 10.1%

Split Second

by David Baldacci

7 votes, 10.1%

The Lifeboat

by Charlotte Rogan

7 votes, 10.1%

Bent Road

by Lori Roy

4 votes, 5.8%

Silver Sparrow

by Tayari Jones

4 votes, 5.8%

Vanessa and Her Sister

by Priya Parmar

4 votes, 5.8%

House Broken

by Sonja Yoerg

3 votes, 4.3%

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