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 mans deception a familys 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 Witherspoons 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).
