Join us for the faculty book club series focusing on a wide range of experiences and identities using current literature. This will hopefully lead to other recommendations and other diverse voices into the future.

Purpose: Allow opportunities to meet other Marquette faculty and others who instruct students, read recent literature with cultural meaning, and build community membership across campus.

Meetings will be held Fridays from Noon-1:15. Lunch will be served.
Books will be provided to the first 15 registered.

*Author visit at MU March 18, 2020

An American Marriage (Tayari Jones*, 2018)

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 twelve 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.

Co-sponsored by

Center for Teaching & Learning,

Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion,

Women’s Innovation Network (WIN), & Raynor Memorial Libraries