02533cam a2200313 4500 605085982 TxAuBib 20220710120000.0 ||||||s2011||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781616200664 1616200669 5732bd82-c43f-4b87-8bcb-6efeb59cce22 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 578222 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Jones, Tayari. Silver Sparrow [Libby eBook]. Algonquin Books, 2011. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1619kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. HTML:<p>With the opening line of <i>Silver Sparrow</i>, "My father, James Witherspoon, is a bigamist," author Tayari Jones unveils a breathtaking story about a man's deception, a family's complicity, and two teenage girls caught in the middle.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>At the heart of it all are the two lives at stake, and like the best writers—think Toni Morrison with <i>The</i> <i>Bluest Eye—</i>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 <i>not</i> as their mothers.</p>. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-09-09 20:00:03. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/1953-1/573/2BD/82/SilverSparrow9781616200664.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=5732BD82-C43F-4B87-8BCB-6EFEB59CCE22&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/1953-1/573/2BD/82/SilverSparrow9781616200664.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=5732BD82-C43F-4B87-8BCB-6EFEB59CCE22&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) BTCLS