![]() ![]() James Witherspoon has two families, one public. ![]() 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. This is the story of a mans deception, a familys complicity, and the two teenage girls caught in the middle. It is a relationship destined to explode when secrets are revealed and illusions shattered.Īs Jones explores the backstories of her rich yet flawed characters-the father, the two mothers, the grandmother, and the uncle-she reveals the joy, as well as the destruction, they brought to one another’s lives. When the daughters from each family meet and form a friendship, only one of them knows they are sisters. ![]() ![]() Social class and privilege more layers of complexity to the story. Set in Atlanta in the 1980s, the novel revolves around James Witherspoon’s two families-the public one and the secret one. Silver Sparrow is a really complicated 1980’s story about family, secrets and sisterhood. Tayari Jones has written a novel filled with characters Ill never. 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. O: The Oprah Magazine Silver Sparrow will break your heart before you even know it. ![]()
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