Silver Sparrow - Tayari Jones

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. nFrom the New York Times Bestselling Author of An American Marriage n A love story . .

. Full of perverse wisdom and proud joy . .

. Jones's skill for wry understatement never wavers. n --O: The Oprah Magazine n n 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. n --Judy Blume n n 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.

n n 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).n