5/11/2023 0 Comments The Untelling by Tayari Jones![]() I’m moving in to “American Marriage” next. She missed the subtleness of the characters and made all the women, save our protagonist, sound like Harriet Winslow from “Family Matters” and all the men sound unintelligent and brut, even though they were clearly written differently. Joness novel Leaving Atlanta (Warner Books, 2002) was a debut fiction winner of the Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award, and The Untelling (Warner Books, 2005) won a. The voice actress hurt this audiobook by flattening all of the characters into two personalities. I bought the audiobook because I thought I didn’t connect to the book the first time because my life was a little chaotic then and I couldn’t slow down to the pace of the story. Named one of TIMEs 10 Best Fiction Books of 2018, An American Marriage. This story lumbered in its pace and was less visual than her other work but it’s still Tayari, so it’s the difference between amazing and good. Jones other novels include Leaving Atlanta, The Untelling, and Silver Sparrow. I fell in love with Tayari Jones’s work after reading “Silver Sparrow” and couldn’t wait to pick up her next piece of literature. I actually bought the paperback of this book about 9 years ago. I’m a Tayari fan but this audio was a little eh. When Aria Jackson was nine, a car accident killed her father and baby sister, forever destroying her familys secure middle-class life. ![]()
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