![]() He feels completely isolated from his family because none of them have experienced the pain and injustice with which he must contend on a daily basis. He is unable to attend the funeral of his mother Olive, who dies while he is in prison. He’s forced to leave his job as a rising executive, stopping his budding career dead in its tracks. ![]() This sentence, of course, has a profound effect on Roy’s life. Roy is a young, middle-class black man who falls prey to the codified racism of the American criminal justice system when he is wrongfully accused of a violent crime-something that happens disproportionately to black men-and sentenced to 12 years in prison. The novel further suggests that incarceration is a destructive force with little practical ties to justice, and which does more to harm society than it does to keep it safe. ![]() The tightly-focused narrative reveals how incarceration can destroy families, placing them at a social disadvantage from which it is difficult to recover. In An American Marriage, Jones reveals the extraordinary effect mass incarceration has on the lives of black Americans. ![]()
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