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).
Author: Tayari Jones
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Published: 05/08/2012
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781616201425
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.9
Point Value: 13
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 144666 / Silver Sparrow
Review Citation(s):
Entertainment Weekly 06/01/2012 pg. 85
--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).
Author: Tayari Jones
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Published: 05/08/2012
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781616201425
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.9
Point Value: 13
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 144666 / Silver Sparrow
Review Citation(s):
Entertainment Weekly 06/01/2012 pg. 85
About the Author
Tayari Jones is the author of four novels, including Silver Sparrow, The Untelling, and Leaving Atlanta. Jones holds degrees from Spelman College, Arizona State University, and the University of Iowa. She serves on the MFA faculty at Rutgers and blogs on writing at www.tayarijones.com/blog. She lives in Brooklyn. An Associate Professor in the MFA program at Rutgers-Newark University, she is spending the 2017-18 academic year as the Shearing Fellow for Distinguished Writers at the Beverly Rogers, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.