Silver sparrow : a novel /

Silver sparrow : a novel /

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Author / Creator:	Jones, Tayari.
Edition:	1st ed.
Imprint:	Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, c2011.
Description:	340 p. ; 22 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	African American families -- Fiction. Polygamy -- Fiction. African American teenage girls -- Fiction. Sisters -- Fiction. Mothers and daughters -- Fiction. Fathers and daughters -- Fiction. African American families. African American teenage girls. Fathers and daughters. Mothers and daughters. Polygamy. Sisters. Atlanta (Ga.) -- Fiction. Georgia -- Atlanta. Domestic fiction. Domestic fiction. Fiction.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8391943

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ISBN:	9781565129900 (hbk.) 1565129903 (hbk.)
Summary:	A 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, 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 when secrets are revealed and illusions shattered. 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. At 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.

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Summary:	From the New York Times Bestselling Author of An American Marriage <br> <br> "A love story . . . Full of perverse wisdom and proud joy . . . Jones's skill for wry understatement never wavers."<br> -- O: The Oprah Magazine <br> <br> " 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."<br> -- Judy Blume <br> <br> 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.<br> <br> 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 ).
Physical Description:	340 p. ; 22 cm.
ISBN:	9781565129900 1565129903