An American Marriage

The person you marry, goes to jail wrongly for 12 years. Will you wait for him or move on?

The question is not that easy, and a lot of it depends on the depth of your bond and your patience. Philosophically deep, you can argue for either side and end it at - to each to its own. The story delves much deeper into African American world where relationships are put to test generation after generation while the wrong happens to innocent people, putting their entire world and people around in trauma. It’s easy to say it’s not probable, but there are many who stay away from their spouses in country and professional duties. Our love for each other takes us thru, but some relationships crumble at the sight of trouble. They are not that strong or probably never had a chance anyway.

In all this dilemma the story revolves around couple of black population based in Atlanta and Louisiana who are still searching for a piece of their sky. Some have done better in the world while some still scrape thru. And the evident racist attitude or stereotypes exist where every black man has a jail background and women with young pregnancies and children with abandoning fathers. Life continues in a vicious cycle, with repetition of failed marriages, single parenting and judicial partiality and punishments for crimes committed by others. 

‘Someone always pays. Bullet don’t have nobody’s name on it, that’s what people say. I think the same is true for vengeance. Maybe even for love. It’s out there, random and deadly, like a tornado.’ 

There are wounds in your life which never go, and failed love is always the deepest wound, like a part of your heart gone with the person you ever loved. You never stop loving them but it’s not the same anymore. You can neither go back or move ahead, trying to find a way still to get away from that path which leads nowhere. 

Anyways you can read the book for a modern take on love and marriage in a social set up where destiny takes prevalence over your actions and thoughts. You endure what’s given to you because there are no real choices in life.