Silver Sparrow

With the opening line ofSilver 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.

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” (theAtlanta Journal Constitution).

Tayari Jones is the author of four novels, includingSilver Sparrow,The Untelling, andLeaving Atlanta. Jones holds degrees from Spelman College, Arizona State University, and the University of Iowa. A winner of numerous literary awards, she is a professor of creative writing at Emory University. Visit her website at www.tayarijones.com.

• Publisher: Algonquin; Signed copy edition (May 8, 2012)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 368 pages
• ISBN-10: 1616201428
• ISBN-13: 9781616201425
• Item Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.92 x 8.25 inches