It was Andre who introduced the pair, and it is Andre to whom Celestial turns when Roy is sentenced to twelve years in a Louisiana prison for the rape of a white woman–a crime he did not commit. On the sidelines as the novel begins is Andre, a man who was Celestial’s best friend growing up, and who became a close friend to Roy during college. Roy views his much more modest, small-town Louisiana upbringing as a gift of humility, but he’s also driven to make his mark in Atlanta’s high-powered business world. In An American Marriage, we meet Celestial, a thirty-something African American woman from an upper-middle-class Atlanta family who is a year and a half into a marriage with a man named Roy.
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