February 12, 2018

February 12, 2018
Today's Featured Title and Contest

This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that releases this winter. Read more about it, and enter our Winter Reading Contest by Tuesday, February 13th at 11:59am ET for a chance to win one of five copies of AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE by Tayari Jones, Oprah's latest Book Club pick and an upcoming Bookreporter.com Bets On selection. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!

Today's Featured Book and Contest:
AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE by Tayari Jones

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. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to 12 years for a crime Celestial knows he didn’t commit.

Though fiercely independent, Celestial finds herself bereft and unmoored, taking comfort in Andre, her childhood friend and best man at their wedding. As Roy’s time in prison passes, she is unable to hold on to the love that has been her center. After five years, Roy’s conviction is suddenly overturned, and he returns to Atlanta ready to resume their life together.

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. 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.

AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE is Oprah's latest Book Club selection and will be a Bookreporter.com Bets On pick. You can read Carol Fitzgerald’s commentary in the February 16th Bookreporter.com Weekly Update newsletter.

- Click here to read a review.

Click here to enter the contest by 11:59am ET
on Tuesday, February 13th.

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