Silver Sparrow Book Discussion - NEA Big Read Community Event Tuesday, November 17, 2020 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm Tuesday, January 19, 2021 - 7:00pm to 8:00pm Tuesday, February 16, 2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
“My father, James Witherspoon, is a bigamist” With the opening line of Silver Sparrow, author Tayari Jones starts the story about a man s deception, a family s complicity, and the two teenage girls caught in the middle.
Set in a middle-class Atlanta neighborhood in the 1980s, the novel revolves around James Witherspoon s two families; the public one and the “family on the side” – 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 for trouble.