Author and Me
Author Tayari Jones is on tour for her newest novel "Silver Sparrow". She made a stop at Nicola's Books in Ann Arbor, MI on June 20, 2011 @ 7pm. Ms. Jones read from the first chapter and intrigued the listeners. The cover design is rich, bold and beautiful. Support a talented artist and buy a copy! With the opening line of Silver Sparrow, “My father, James Witherspoon is a bigam ist,” Tayari Jones unv eils a breathtaking story about a man’s deception, a family ’s complicity, and the teenage girls caught in the middle. Set in a middle-class neighborhood in Atlanta in the 1980s, the novel revolves around James Withersp oon’s 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 and flawed characters, she also reveals the joy, and the destructi