An American Marriage

• Author : Tayari Jones
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release : 19 March 2018

LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION, 2019 SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 'A moving portrayal of the effects of a wrongful conviction on a young African-American couple.' - Barack Obama A Book of the Year according the i, Guardian, Sunday Times, Sunday Mail Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of the American Dream. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. Until one day they are

• Author : Michael Burlingame
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release : 01 June 2021

An enlightening narrative exploring an oft-overlooked aspect of the sixteenth president's life, An American Marriage reveals the tragic story of Abraham Lincoln’s marriage to Mary Todd. Abraham Lincoln was apparently one of those men who regarded “connubial bliss” as an untenable fantasy. During the Civil War, he pardoned a Union soldier who had deserted the army to return home to wed his sweetheart. As the president signed a document sparing the soldier's life, Lincoln said: “I want to punish

• Author : Tayari Jones
• Publisher : Algonquin Books
• Release : 06 February 2018

A NEW YORK TIMES AND WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK A 2018 BEST OF THE YEAR SELECTION OF NPR * TIME * BUSTLE * O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE * THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS * AMAZON.COM OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB 2018 SELECTION LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION “A moving portrayal of the effects of a wrongful conviction on a young African-American couple.” —Barack Obama “Haunting . . . Beautifully written.” —The New York Times Book Review “Brilliant and heartbreaking . . . Unforgettable.” —USA Today “A tense and timely love story . . .

• Author : Tayari Jones
• Publisher : HarperCollins
• Release : 06 February 2018

One of the most anticipated novels of 2018 according to Entertainment Weekly * Goodreads * Esquire * Elle * Cosmopolitan *BBC * Huffington Post * Bustle * Southern Living * Newsday * Bookish * Nylon “Transcendent . . . Triumphant . . . Gorgeous.”—Elle “A stunning epic love story . . . An exquisite, timely, and powerful novel that feels both urgent and indispensable.”—Edwidge Danticat Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career.

• Author : Annette Gordon-Reed
• Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
• Release : 08 September 2009

Winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize: "[A] commanding and important book." —Jill Lepore, The New Yorker This epic work—named a best book of the year by the Washington Post, Time, the Los Angeles Times, Amazon, the San Francisco Chronicle, and a notable book by the New York Times—tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president had been systematically expunged from American history until very recently. Now, historian and

• Author : Aidan Smith
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 03 October 2017

Gender, Heteronormativity and the American Presidency places notions of gender at the center of its analysis of presidential campaign communications. Over the decades, an investment in gendered representations of would-be leaders has changed little, in spite of the second- and third-wave feminist movements. Modern candidates have worked vigorously to demonstrate "compensatory heterosexuality," an unquestionable normative identity that seeks to overcome challenges to their masculinity or femininity. The book draws from a wide range of archived media material, including televised films

• Author : Bookhabits
• Publisher : Blurb
• Release : 04 May 2018

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones: Conversation Starters An American Marriage, the latest book by bestselling author Tayari Jones, is an inspiring story that takes you inside the thoughts and feelings of Celestial and Roy, a married couple living in Atlanta. This African American couple is torn apart when Roy is sentenced to over a decade in prison for something he didn't do. How will they be able to move forward with their lives without letting the past hold them

• Author : Sylvia Yanagisako
• Publisher : Stanford University Press
• Release : 01 March 1992

This book is at once a cultural history of Japanese American kinship and a contribution to the study of the contemporary kinship system of the United States. It brings to the analysis of American kinship a theoretical perspective that attends to the historically situated, symbolic processes through which people interpret and thereby transform their kinship relations. By examining kinship change among Japanese Americans, I elucidate a particular case of a general process I take as having been central to the

• Author : Susan McWilliams Barndt
• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
• Release : 21 June 2018

It’s hard to imagine the American dream without American road trips. This book takes readers on a journey through American road trip stories, revealing that they involve more than mere escapism—that they are an important and long-neglected source of American political thought.

• Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Immigration and Naturalization
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 19 May 2022

• Author : Richard Heathcote Heindel
• Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
• Release : 15 November 2017

• Author : Peter Y. Medding
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release : 04 February 1999

How has the Jewish family changed over the course of the twentieth century? How has it remained the same? How do Jewish families see themselves--historically, socially, politically, and economically--and how would they like to be seen by others? This book, the fourteenth volume of Oxford's internationally acclaimed Studies in Contemporary Jewry series, presents a variety of perspectives on Jewish families coping with life and death in the twentieth century. The book is comprised of symposium papers, essays, and review articles

• Author : Paul Lauter
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release : 13 July 2020

This expansive Companion offers a set of fresh perspectives on the wealth of texts produced in and around what is now the United States. Highlights the diverse voices that constitute American literature, embracing oral traditions, slave narratives, regional writing, literature of the environment, and more Demonstrates that American literature was multicultural before Europeans arrived on the continent, and even more so thereafter Offers three distinct paradigms for thinking about American literature, focusing on: genealogies of American literary study; writers and

• Author : Susan Zeiger
• Publisher : NYU Press
• Release : 22 March 2010

Throughout the twentieth century, American male soldiers returned home from wars with foreign-born wives in tow, often from allied but at times from enemy nations, resulting in a new, official category of immigrant: the “allied” war bride. These brides began to appear en masse after World War I, peaked after World War II, and persisted through the Korean and Vietnam Wars. GIs also met and married former “enemy” women under conditions of postwar occupation, although at times the US government

• Author : Whizbooks
• Publisher : Blurb
• Release : 09 January 2019

Summary of An American Marriage: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club 2018 Selection) by Tayari Jones: Trivia/Quiz for Fans Roy and Celestial newly married and looking forward to many more years of a happy and prosperous life together. Then one day, the couple visit Roy's parents in Eloe and decide to spend the night in a hotel. They fight, and to ease the tension, agreed are to have a 15 minute break from the heated argument. Roy goes out of the room