This was good, but not that good - I think the publicity has over-egged it.
I struggled with a couple of aspects; were the 3 central characters all black (I think yes), and if so why the title An American Marriage? I may be shooting myself in the foot here, but I think of America as a fairly mixed race country.
The plot is simple but well put together, a couple get married; he is (I think wrongly) accused of rape and jailed, she cannot cope with an epistolary only relationship and runs off with an old school friend. He is let out of jail, has a brief fling with another woman, but returns to claim back his wife.
Well written and conceived but I struggled to understand certain of the themes.
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