Silver Sparrow

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Pub Date Mar 19 2020 | Archive Date Mar 17 2020

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A Most Anticipated Book for 2020 according to The Sunday Times, the FT and the Guardian A breathtaking tale of family secrets, from the author of 2019 Women's Prize for Fiction winner An American Marriage 'My father, James Witherspoon, is a bigamist.' This is the breathtaking story of a man's deception, a family's complicity, and the two teenage girls caught in the middle. James Witherspoon has two families, one public, the other a closely guarded secret. But when his daughters meet and form a friendship, only one of them knows the truth. Theirs is a relationship destined to explode.
A Most Anticipated Book for 2020 according to The Sunday Times, the FT and the Guardian A breathtaking tale of family secrets, from the author of 2019 Women's Prize for Fiction winner An American...

Advance Praise

‘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
‘Charting a vast emotional unknown is Tayari Jones's compelling third novel, Silver Sparrow, in which a teenage girl's coming of age in 1980s Atlanta is shadowed by her dawning understanding of a corrosive secret – her father's second family.’ Vogue

‘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...


Available Editions

EDITION Hardcover
ISBN 9781786077967
PRICE £16.99 (GBP)

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A stunning follow up to the deservedly widely lauded American Marriage. I loved this story of Dana and Chaurisse, who are born just months apart yet are half sisters as a result of their fathers bigamy. The secret family of Dana and her mother have always known about Chaurisse and her mother Lauverne..... and the first half of the story tells the story from Dana and her mother’s perspective. The second is from Chaurisse, who knows nothing of her fathers other life. As the girls grow up in the same town with shared acquaintances surely it only a matter of time before the secrets come to life.

Brilliantly balanced, we have nothing but love for all the characters in this novel. A fascinating exploration and study into what the emotional impact of bigamy has on all the players involved. Provokes thoughts, discussion, and I thought a great way of highlighting the complexities of relationships behind what are often the most salacious of headlines we often see covered in journalism.

Will be recommending far and wide. Loved it.

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Something about "Silver Sparrow" is deeply enchanting. I didn't want to put it down and was really irritated when life interfered with the reading of it. The language is lovely. Tayari Jones uses words like webs of spun silver and drapes them all around the reader. I loved everything about this book. An instant fave.

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