Silver Sparrow
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4.7 • 3 Ratings
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
From the New York Times Bestselling Author of An American Marriage
“A love story . . . Full of perverse wisdom and proud joy . . . Jones’s skill for wry understatement never wavers.”
—O: The Oprah Magazine
“Silver Sparrow will break your heart before you even know it. Tayari Jones has written a novel filled with characters I’ll never forget. This is a book I’ll read more than once.”
—Judy Blume
With the opening line of Silver Sparrow, "My father, James Witherspoon, is a bigamist," author Tayari Jones unveils a breathtaking story about a man's deception, a family's complicity, and the two teenage girls caught in the middle.
Set in a middle-class neighborhood in Atlanta in the 1980s, the novel revolves around James Witherspoon's two families—the public one and the secret one. When the daughters from each family meet and form a friendship, only one of them knows they are sisters. It is a relationship destined to explode. This is the third stunning novel from an author deemed "one of the most important writers of her generation" (the Atlanta Journal Constitution).
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
From the first time they met, Dana and Chaurisse felt like sisters. That’s in part because the Atlanta teens have the same father. But Chaurisse doesn’t know about her dad’s other, secret family. Only Dana knows about the true depth of their relationship, setting their friendship on an inevitable path toward destruction and heartbreak. The first half of this searing and powerful novel gives us Dana’s perspective, complete with all of the shame and heartache of growing up in the shadows. When she meets her half sister, whose story unfolds in the book’s second half, the story takes on a new level of raw emotional complexity that makes things even more fascinating and agonizing. Intimate and captivating, Silver Sparrow draws us into a tangled emotional web that’s ultimately deeply cathartic.
