
Silver Sparrow by: Tayari Jones
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).
Product details
- Publisher : Algonquin Books; Signed copy edition (May 8, 2012)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 368 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1616201428
- ISBN-13 : 978-1616201425
- Lexile measure : 770L
- Item Weight : 12.8 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.92 x 8.25 inches