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Tayari, Bix and Darlene

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Marc Myers
Feb 23, 2019
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The Wall Street Journal this week, I interviewed best-selling novelist Tayari Jones for my "House Call" column in the Mansion section (go here). Tayari is the author of An American Marriage, and we talked about her growing up in Atlanta and in Nigeria in the 1970s and how her crush on her school's marching-band drummer resulted in her becoming a writ…

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