In one of his loveliest and most idealistic sonnets, Shakespeare writes,
Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds Or bends with the remover to remove.
Tayari Jones knows that’s poppycock.
In novel after novel, she explores the dynamic quality of love without questioning its persistence. How we relate to one another — even those most dear to us — is not “an ever-fixèd mark.” Given the vicissitudes of time, she asks, how could it be? Our affections are altered by distance, thinned in some places, amplified in others, the way sound changes as it travels.
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