Now in paperback, Tayari Jones' New York Times bestseller and an Oprah’s Book Club selection is an intimate look deep into the souls of people who must reckon with the past while moving forward --- with hope and pain --- into the future.

Now in paperback, Tayari Jones' New York Times bestseller and an Oprah’s Book Club selection is an intimate look deep into the souls of people who must reckon with the past while moving forward --- with hope and pain --- into the future.

Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to 12 years for a crime Celestial knows he didn’t commit.

Though fiercely independent, Celestial finds herself bereft and unmoored, taking comfort in Andre, her childhood friend and best man at their wedding. As Roy’s time in prison passes, she is unable to hold on to the love that has been her center. After five years, Roy’s conviction is suddenly overturned, and he returns to Atlanta ready to resume their life together.
 
This stirring love story is a profoundly insightful look into the hearts and minds of three people who are at once bound and separated by forces beyond their control. AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE is a masterpiece of storytelling, an intimate look deep into the souls of people who must reckon with the past while moving forward --- with hope and pain --- into the future.

The follow-up to Susan Gloss' successful debut, VINTAGE, is a charming midwestern story of artists, inspiration, and how to reinvent your life with purpose and flair.

The follow-up to Susan Gloss' successful debut, VINTAGE, is a charming midwestern story of artists, inspiration, and how to reinvent your life with purpose and flair.

The follow-up to Susan Gloss' successful debut, VINTAGE, is a charming midwestern story of artists, inspiration, and how to reinvent your life with purpose and flair.

Nell Parker has a PhD in Art History, a loving husband named Josh, and a Craftsman bungalow in Madison, WI. But her last pregnancy ended later in the second trimester, and rather than pausing to grieve, she pushes harder for testing and fertility treatments. Urging Nell to apply for jobs, Josh believes his wife needs something else to focus on other than a baby that may never be.

Finding a job turns out to be difficult for an art historian...until Nell sees the ad seeking a director for a new nonprofit called the Mansion Hill Artists' Colony. The colony is the brainchild of the late, unconventional society dame Betsy Barrett, who left behind her vast fortune and a killer collection of modern art to establish an artist-in-residency program to be run out of her lakeside mansion. The executor of Betsy's estate simply hands Nell a set of house keys and wishes her luck, leaving her to manage the mansion and the eccentric personalities of the artists who live there on her own.

Soon one of the artists, a young metal sculptor named Odin, is keeping the other residents awake with his late-night welding projects. Nell is pretty sure that Annie, a dreadlocked granny known for her avant-garde performance pieces, is dealing drugs out of the basement "studio." Meanwhile, Paige, an art student from the university, takes up residence in the third-floor turret, experimenting with new printing and design techniques, as well as leading a string of bad boyfriends upstairs when she stumbles home late at night. 

Despite all the drama, Nell finds something akin to a family among the members of the creative community that she’s brought together. And when her attraction to Odin begins to heat up, Nell is forced to decide what will bring her greater joy --- the creative, inspired world she's created, or the familiar but increasingly fragile one of her marriage.