Bryan Stevenson’s 2014 Just Mercy tells the true story of a young black man sentenced to die for a murder he insisted he did not commit. An American Marriage: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club 2018 Selection) Hardcover Februby Tayari Jones (Author) 60,446 ratings Editors' pick Best Literature & Fiction See all formats and editions Kindle 11.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. Michelle Alexander’s 2010 nonfiction book The New Jim Crow presents mass incarceration as a new form of slavery, while famed activist Angela Davis has written multiple books espousing the merits of prison abolition, including Are Prisons Obsolete? (2003) and Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture (2004). Like Jones, contemporary African American writer Jesmyn Ward explores the effects of mass incarceration on black families in her 2017 novel Sing, Unburied, Sing. While Jones’s previous works primarily focus on younger protagonists, all four books closely dissect the intricacies of family life. Like An American Marriage, Jones’ third novel, Silver Sparrow (2011) focuses on leading a double life as it explores what happens when the daughters of a man with both a public family and a secret family meet and become friends. Her second novel, The Untelling (2005), is also set in Atlanta and tells the story of a character forced to redefine herself in her mid-twenties while reflecting on the members of her family she lost as a child. Jones’ 2002 debut novel Leaving Atlanta is a coming of age story set during the Atlanta Child Murders of 1979-1981, and, like An American Marriage, takes place in the titular city.

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