Her writing is simply effortless and captivating.
It’s one of the easiest read yet important that I have come across this year. I didn’t know why I delayed to finish this book because to be honest, it was really good and I love it. It took me so long to finish this book when the fact is I could’ve finished it in few days time. 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.Īt 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. It is a relationship destined to explode when secrets are revealed and illusions shattered. When the daughters from each family meet and form a friendship, only one of them knows they are sisters. 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.
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. Characters: Dana Lynn Yarboro, Chaurisse Witherspoon, Gwen, James Witherspoon, Raleigh Witherspoon, Laverne Witherspoon, …
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