In 1968, she was working at the gift-wrap counter at Davison's downtown when my father asked her to wrap the carving knife he had bought his wife for their wedding anniversary. He was already married ten years when he first clamped eyes on my mother. MY FATHER, JAMES WITHERSPOON, is a bigamist. This is the third stunning novel from an author deemed “one of the most important writers of her generation” ( the Atlanta Journal Constitution). It is a relationship destined to explode. 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 the two teenage girls caught in the middle. This is a book I’ll read more than once.” Tayari Jones has written a novel filled with characters I’ll never forget. “ Silver Sparrow will break your heart before you even know it.
Jones’s skill for wry understatement never wavers.”
From the New York Times Bestselling Author of An American Marriage
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