Jane Dystel is a shrewd agent, loyal advocate, and extremely kind human being. I want to acknowledge the generous assistance of the MacDowell Colony, the Family and Friends of Gerald Freund, the Corporation of Yaddo, John and Joan Jakobson, the LEF Foundation, Arizona Commission on the Arts, the Ledig House International Writers Colony, Le Chateau de Lavigny International Writers Colony, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Wesleyan Summer Writers Conference, East Tennessee State University, and the G.E. Ron Carlson helped me at the start of this project you will find his fingerprints everywhere. Deirdre McNamer was an inspiration even before we met. Jewell Parker Rhodes, Crystal Wilkinson, Merrill Fietell, Monique Truong, and Suji Kwok Kim are the counterargument to all the snarky things people say about writers. Renee Simms helps me understand perspective. Linda Eldridge is everything a bartender should be. Holman, Aisha Moon, June Aldridge, and Eric Beaumont. These folks helped me see what was good but told me how to fix what needed fixing: Barbara Ann Posey Jones, Deanna Bryant, Ginney Fowler, João Costa Vargas, Chad Unrein, Maxine Kennedy, Jafari Allen, David Van Fossen, Kiyana Sakena Horton, John W. Major love to my friends who lent their eyes to any of the six major incarnations of this novel.
Anne Warner nudges me toward what is right. Thanks to Sally Keith, who "gets" me, and Bryn "Pie" Chancellor, who scours all drafts.
My parents and siblings are extremely good people.
“Tayari Jones is a wonderful storyteller.” - Ploughshares Read Excerpt “Tayari Jones has emerged as one of the most important voices of her generation.” - Essence “Tayari Jones is blessed with vision to see through to the surprising and devastating truths at the heart of ordinary lives, strength to wrest those truths free, and a gift of language to lay it all out, compelling and clear.” - Michael Chabon The truth is about to make her question her every assumption and reevaluate the life she has worked so hard to build for herself…as it sends her reeling in a direction she had no idea she was destined to go. And although relations with her remaining family are strained, she’s done her best to establish a solid, normal life for herself, living in Atlanta and teaching literacy to girls who have fallen on hard times.īut now she has a secret that she’s not yet ready to share with Dwayne, her devoted boyfriend, or Rochelle, her roommate and best friend: Aria is pregnant. From the author of the Oprah Book Club Selection An American Marriage, here is an emotionally powerful novel that “succeeds mightily…truly a wonderful story” (Boston Globe).Īria is no stranger to tragedy - as a young girl, she and her older sister and mother survived a car crash that took the lives of their father and beloved baby sister.
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