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Silver sparrow : a novel / by Tayari Jones.

Title: Silver sparrow : a novel / by Tayari Jones.
Author: Jones, Tayari
Publication: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, ©2011.

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Description

340 pages; 22 cm

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.

Subject

Genre/Form

Domestic fiction
Fiction
Domestic fiction.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Awards (note)

Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Award, 2012.

ISBN

9781565129900
1565129903
9781616201425
1616201428

LCCN

2010048098

OCLC

664666689
SCSB-12784680

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library