Silver sparrow, by Tayari Jones
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Silver sparrow, by Tayari Jones
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Intended audience
770L, Lexile
Literary Form
novels
Main title
Silver sparrow
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Oclc number
755103032
Responsibility statement
by Tayari Jones
resource.studyProgramName
Accelerated Reader, UG, 4.9, 13, 13, 144666
Summary
A story about a man's deception, a family's complicity, and 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 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. At the heart of it all are the two lives at stake, and like the best writers--think Toni Morrison with The Bluest Eye--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 not as their mothers
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- Black people
- Domestic fiction
- Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
- Fathers and daughters -- Fiction
- African American teenage girls -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Electronic books
- Sexual relationships
- Siblings -- Fiction
- Sisters -- Fiction
- Partner preference
- BIPOC -- Fiction
- Black teenage girls -- Fiction
- Black families -- Fiction
- Polygamy -- Fiction
- Polygamy
- Parents -- Fiction
- Atlanta (Ga.) -- Fiction
- African American families -- Fiction
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- Classification1
- Creator1
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- Subject19
- Black people
- Domestic fiction
- Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
- Fathers and daughters -- Fiction
- African American teenage girls -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Electronic books
- Sexual relationships
- Siblings -- Fiction
- Sisters -- Fiction
- Partner preference
- BIPOC -- Fiction
- Black teenage girls -- Fiction
- Black families -- Fiction
- Polygamy -- Fiction
- Polygamy
- Parents -- Fiction
- Atlanta (Ga.) -- Fiction
- African American families -- Fiction
- Content1
- Other version1
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