For all its concern with the mysteries of the human heart, the book has little to say about the vagaries of what motivates us to love and lie and betray. Set on its forced trajectory, the novel piles revelation on revelation, growing increasingly histrionic and less believable. Meanwhile, Chaurisse enjoys the easy, uncomplicated comforts of family, and though James has done his utmost to ensure his daughters' paths never cross, the girls, of course, meet, and their friendship sets their worlds toward inevitable (and predictable) collision. Perpetually feeling second best, 15-year-old Dana takes up with an older boy whose treatment of her only confirms her worst expectations about men. Set in a middle-class neighborhood in Atlanta in the 1980s, Silver Sparrow revolves around James Witherspoons two families - the public one and the secret. From the New York Times Bestselling Author of An American MarriageWith the opening line of Silver. The speaker is Dana Yarboro, who shares her. This, Dana surmises, confers 'one peculiar advantage' to her and Gwen over James's other family, with whom he lives full time, though such knowledge is small comfort in the face of all their disadvantages. Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones available in Trade Paperback on, also read synopsis and reviews. Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones (Algonquin) ilver Sparrow grabs the reader with its opening sentence: My father, James Witherspoon, is a bigamist. Both girls-born four months apart-are the daughters of James Witherspoon, a secret bigamist, but only Dana and her mother, Gwen, are aware of his double life. Gwen tells Dana that they have an advantage over Laverne and Chaurisse because they know the truth.

A coming-of-age story of sorts, Jones's melodramatic latest (after The Untelling) chronicles the not-quite-parallel lives of Dana Lynn Yarboro and Bunny Chaurisse Witherspoon in 1980s Atlanta.

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