num_pages: 352
description: With the opening line of Silver Sparrow My father James Witherspoon is a bigamist Tayari Jones unveils a breathtaking story about a mans deception a familys complicity and the teenage girls caught in the middle.Set in a middle-class neighborhood in Atlanta in the 1980s the novel revolves around James Witherspoons 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 when secrets are revealed and illusions shattered. As Jones explores the backstories of her rich and flawed characters she also reveals the joy and the destruction they brought to each others lives.At the heart of it all are the two girls whose lives are at stake and like the best writers Jones portrays the fragility of her characers with raw authenticity as they seek love demand attention and try to imagine themselves as women.
language: English
title: Silver Sparrow
publisher: Algonquin Books