Silver sparrow: a novel
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 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 when secrets are revealed and illusions shattered. As Jones explores the backstories of her rich yet flawed characters—the father, the two mothers, the grandmother, and the uncle—she also reveals the joy, as well as the destruction, they brought to one another's lives.
At the heart of it all are the two lives at stake, and like the best writers—think Toni Morrison with The Bluest Eye—Jones portrays the fragility of these young girls with raw authenticity as they seek love, demand attention, and try to imagine themselves as women, just not as their mothers.
African American families -- Fiction
African American teenage girls
African American teenage girls -- Fiction
Atlanta (Ga.) -- Fiction
Black Authors
Diverse Voices
Domestic fiction
Fathers and daughters
Fathers and daughters -- Fiction
Fiction
Literature
Mothers and daughters
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
Polygamy
Polygamy -- Fiction
Sisters
Sisters -- Fiction
9781616200664
9781982490300
Level 4.9, 13 Points
Grouping Information
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Grouping Title | silver sparrow |
Grouping Author | tayari jones |
Grouping Category | book |
Grouping Language | English (eng) |
Last Grouping Update | 2023-02-01 03:40:38AM |
Last Indexed | 2023-02-01 04:07:41AM |
Solr Fields
Williams, Rosalyn Coleman
Williams, Rosalyn Coleman.|Narrator
hoopla digital
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 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 when secrets are revealed and illusions shattered. As Jones explores the backstories of her rich yet flawed characters—the father, the two mothers, the grandmother, and the uncle—she also reveals the joy, as well as the destruction, they brought to one another's lives.
At the heart of it all are the two lives at stake, and like the best writers—think Toni Morrison with The Bluest Eye—Jones portrays the fragility of these young girls with raw authenticity as they seek love, demand attention, and try to imagine themselves as women, just not as their mothers.
eAudiobook
eBook
Books
eBook
9781616200664
9781982490300
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Blackstone Publishing
African American teenage girls -- Fiction
Atlanta (Ga.) -- Fiction
Black Authors
Diverse Voices
Domestic fiction
Fathers and daughters -- Fiction
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
Polygamy -- Fiction
Sisters -- Fiction
Silver sparrow : a novel / by Tayari Jones
Silver sparrow : a novel [electronic resource] Jones, Tayari.
African American teenage girls
Fathers and daughters
Fiction
Literature
Mothers and daughters
Polygamy
Sisters
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