An American Marriage by Tayari Jones: Top 10 Audiobook of 2018

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones is one of our Top Ten Audiobooks of 2018. The idea for this novel came to Jones in an Atlanta mall. Jones says in an interview with NPR: “I overheard a couple arguing. He looked fine, but she looked great. And she said to him, ‘Roy, you know you wouldn’t have waited on me for seven years.’ And he said, ‘I don’t know what you’re talking about; this wouldn’t have happened to you in the first place!’”