6/22/2023 0 Comments An american marriage![]() This wouldn't have happened to you in the first place.īATES: And right then and there, the seed for "An American Marriage" took root. ![]() And he said, I don't know what you're talking about. And she said to him, Roy, you know you wouldn't have waited on me for seven years. JONES: The woman was beautifully dressed, and the young man, he looked fine. TAYARI JONES: And when I was there in the mall, I overheard a couple arguing.īATES: Something about them caught her attention. Then she went home to visit her mother in Atlanta and took a trip to the mall just to walk around and clear her head. Months later, she knew a lot about the criminal justice system and how it affected black men's lives, but none of that information moved her to write anything. She'd gotten a fellowship to study race and incarceration in preparation for her next book. KAREN GRIGSBY BATES, BYLINE: Tayari Jones was on her way to Harvard. She told Karen Grigsby Bates of NPR's Code Switch team how she came to write "An American Marriage." ![]() The writer's name is Tayari Jones, and her much-noticed novel began with a meeting in a mall. ![]() Next, we meet a novelist who says she owes her newest book to a chance encounter. He made his name painting people he met almost at random on the street. ![]() The artist who unveiled President Obama's portrait this week said his art depends in part on chance. ![]()
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