Ebook {Epub PDF} Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones

Book Summary. 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 two teenage girls caught in the middle. Set in a middle-class neighborhood in Atlanta in the s, the novel revolves around James Witherspoon's two families - the public one and the secret one. “Charting a vast emotional unknown is Tayari Jones's compelling third novel, Silver Sparrow, in which a teenage girl's coming of age in s Atlanta is shadowed by her dawning understanding of a corrosive secret – her father's second family.”/5(K). Silver Sparrow was named a #1 Indie Next Pick by booksellers in , and the NEA added it to its Big Read Library of classics in Jones is a graduate of Spelman College, University of Iowa, and Arizona State University/5(4K).

Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones The Great Black Hope. By Chantal James | J | am. Books Reviews. Share Tweet Submit Pin. On Friday, June 8, , an all-black crowd gathered at. Silver Sparrow, Tayari Jones's novel, has been printed in the U.K. by Oneworld. According to The Guardian, "This book is as moving, intimate and wise as An American Marriage on the topics of marriage, family and womanhood, and deserves similar acclaim.". 'You know the work you're meant to do.'Tayari Jones with the incredible story behind the publication of Silver Sparrow, a story to encourage any writer at an.

Silver Sparrow was named a #1 Indie Next Pick by booksellers in , and the NEA added it to its Big Read Library of classics in Jones is a graduate of Spelman College, University of Iowa, and Arizona State University. Book Summary. 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 two teenage girls caught in the middle. Set in a middle-class neighborhood in Atlanta in the s, the novel revolves around James Witherspoon's two families - the public one and the secret one. Silver Sparrow – Tayari Jones. Algonquin Books, With the opening line of Silver Sparrow, “My father, James Witherspoon is a bigamist,” Tayari Jones unveils a breathtaking story about a man’s deception, a family’s complicity, and the teenage girls caught in the middle. Set in a middle-class neighborhood in Atlanta in the s, the novel revolves around James Witherspoon’s families– the public one and the secret one.