Atlanta-based author Tayari Jones tells the saga of a young black man falsely accused and wrongly convicted of rape in her novel, “An American Marriage.” The book won last year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction, was chosen for Oprah’s Book Club, and it also won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work.
With ongoing protests around the world over police brutality, Jones joined “Morning Edition” host Lisa Rayam to put her book into context and discuss the human cost of injustice.
“I think my book is very clear that the way racism in the criminal justice system is ruining people’s lives,” Jones said.
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