Summary
My favourite of all the books I have written. Tayari Jones
From the winner of The Women’s Prize and New York Times Bestseller An American Marriage.
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.
Set in a middle-class neighborhood in Atlanta in the 1980s, the n…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781760895273 |
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| ISBN-10: | 176089527X |
| Author: | Tayari Jones |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 20 August 2019 |
| Weight: | 266g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 24mm |
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About The Author
Tayari Jones
Tayari Jones is the author of four novels, most recently An American Marriage which won the Women’s Prize for Fiction. An American Marriage was an Oprah’s Book Club Selection and also appeared on Barack Obama’s summer reading list as well as his year-end roundup. The novel was awarded the Aspen Words Prize and an NAACP Image Award. It has been published in two dozen countries. Jones, a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow, has also been a recipient of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, United States Artist Fellowship, NEA Fellowship, and Radcliffe Institute Bunting Fellowship. Her third novel, Silver Sparrow, was added to the NEA Big Read Library of classics in 2016. Jones is a graduate of Spelman College, University of Iowa, and Arizona State University. She is an Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University and the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Creative Writing at Emory University.
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