Registration is Required at Call the Library at 81. Tayari Jones will Autograph her New Hardcovers that are purchased from Rainy Day Books at this Event.ĪDMISSION PACKAGE: This is a Complimentary OPEN House Event. A Meet & Greet Booksigning will follow the Presentation. LOCATION: A Rainy Day Books Author Event at Mid-Continent Public Library, Woodneath Library Center, The Story Center, 8900 NE Flintlock Road, Kansas City, Missouri 64157ĮVENT FORMAT: Tayari Jones will Present her New Hardcover Novel An American Marriage, an Indie Next List & Oprah's Book Club 2018 Selection, and answer audience questions. An American Marriage is a masterpiece of storytelling, an intimate look deep into the souls of people who must reckon with the past while moving forward-with hope and pain-into the future.ĭATE & TIME: Wednesday, February 21, 2018, at 7:00 PM This stirring love story is a profoundly insightful look into the hearts and minds of three people who are at once bound and separated by forces beyond their control. After 5 Years, Roy's conviction is suddenly overturned, and he returns to Atlanta ready to resume their life together. As Roy's time in prison passes, she is unable to hold on to the love that has been her center. Though fiercely independent, Celestial finds herself bereft and unmoored, taking comfort in Andre, her childhood friend, and best man at their wedding. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn't commit.
But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. Harter Black Mountain Institute at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.ĪBOUT THE NEW BOOK: Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. An Associate Professor in the MFA program at Rutgers-Newark University, she is spending the 2017-18 Academic Year as the Shearing Fellow for Distinguished Writers at the Beverly Rogers, Carol C. She serves on the MFA faculty at Rutgers and blogs on writing at lives in Brooklyn. Jones holds Degrees from Spelman College, Arizona State University, and the University of Iowa. EVENT OVERVIEW: Tayari Jones will Present her New Hardcover Novel An American Marriage, an Indie Next List & Oprah's Book Club 2018 Selection! This Event is Co-Presented by Rainy Day Books & Mid-Continent Public Library.ĪBOUT Tayari Jones: Tayari Jones is the Author of 4 Novels, including Silver Sparrow, The Untelling, and Leaving Atlanta.
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