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Part One: "Bridge Music," Pages 1-40 (Roy, Celestial)

• NOTE: Citations in this Lesson Plan refer to the following version of the book: Jones, Tayari. An American Marriage. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2018. First edition.

• An American Marriage is narrated from the first-person perspective of three characters in alternating chapters indicated by the narrator’s name.

• The first chapter in Part One: “Bridge Music” comes from the perspective of Roy.

• Roy directly addresses the reader, describing his background growing up in the small town of Eloe, Louisiana.

• Roy is quick to note that while his family was not well off by any means, they were not poor—Roy never worried that he would not have food to eat and his parents worked hard to ensure he was able to attend college.

• Roy’s wife Celestial, on the other hand, is from an affluent black neighborhood in Atlanta, Georgia, where...

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