'Up until now, I thought I knew what was and wasn't possible. Maybe that's what innocence is, having no way to predict the pain of the future. When something happens that eclipses the imaginable, it changes a person. It's like the difference between a raw egg and a scrambled egg. It's the same thing, but it's not the same at all. That's the best way that I can put it. I look in the mirror and I know it's me, but I can't quite recognise myself .'
For our eighth book of the year I recommend An American Marriage by Tayari Jones. It is a book about race, justice, love and heartbreak. An appalling miscarriage of justice irrevocably changes the course of Roy and Celestial's life, love and marriage. Here is the worksheet.
