| Silver Sparrow Contributor(s): Jones, Tayari (Author) |
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ISBN: 1616201428 ISBN-13: 9781616201425 Publisher: Algonquin Books OUR PRICE: $15.29 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | African American - General - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Family Life - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 770 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.4" W x 8.1" (0.65 lbs) 368 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Cultural Region - South - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Geographic Orientation - Georgia - Locality - Atlanta, Georgia - Topical - Family |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 144666 Reading Level: 4.9 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 13.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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). |
Contributor Bio(s): Jones, Tayari: - 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. A winner of numerous literary awards, she is a professor of creative writing at Emory University. Visit her website at www.tayarijones.com. |