Silver Sparrow

Silver Sparrow - Paperback

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Silver Sparrow - Paperback

Silver Sparrow - Paperback

by Tayari Jones
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by Tayari Jones (Author)

From the New York Times bestselling author of An American Marriage.

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).

"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
Number of Pages: 368
Dimensions: 0.8 x 8.1 x 5.4 IN
Publication Date: May 08, 2012
Accelerated Reader:
Quiz Name: Silver Sparrow
Interest Level: Upper Grades, 9-12
Reading Level: 4.9
Point Value: 13
ISBN9781616201425
Author Tayari Jones
PublisherAlgonquin Books
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedMay 2012
LanguageENG- English
Pages368
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceTeens & young adults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Tayari Jones

TAYARI JONES is the author of four novels, most recently An American Marriage, which was an Oprah's Book Club selection and also appeared on Barack Obama's summer reading list and his year-end roundup. It won the Women's Prize for Fiction, the Aspen Words Literary Prize, and an NAACP Image Award and has been published in two dozen countries. Jones is the C.H. Candler Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University and lives in Atlanta.

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