Tayari Jones

Tayari Jones is an award-winning American author of literary fiction who grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. An American Marriage won the Women's Prize for Fiction and was selected for Oprah's Book Club. The novel tells the devastating story of a young African-American couple whose marriage is destroyed when the husband is wrongfully convicted of a crime he didn't commit. Jones writes with extraordinary empathy about love, injustice, and the Black American experience. Her audiobooks and books are powerful, essential listening and reading for fans of literary fiction that explores race, justice, and the resilience of love.