Description
About the Author Tayari Jones is the author of Leaving Atlanta , The Untelling , and Silver Sparrow . She holds degrees from Spelman College, Arizona State University, and the University of Iowa. She serves on the MFA faculty at Rutgers. Rosalyn Coleman Williams is the director of the award-winning short film Allergic to Nuts . She is a 2003 Fox Fellow Award winner and was nominated for a 2006 Barrymore Award for Best Actress for her performance in Intimate Apparel at the Philadelphia Theater Company. Her film credits include Vanilla Sky , Our Song , and Music of the Heart . Rosalyn is a member of New York Women in Film and Television, the East Coast Writers Collective, and a lifetime member of the Actors Studio. Heather Alicia Simms is an AudioFile Earphones Award-winning narrator and actress. Her filmography includes Broken Flowers , Flutter Kick , Shock Act , Kingscounty , Head of State , Third Watch , and others. She also provided voice acting for the video game Red Dead Revolver .
Features & Highlights
- With the opening line of Silver Sparrow, My father, James Witherspoon, is a bigamist, author Tayari Jones unveils a breathtaking story about a mans deception, a familys complicity, and two teenage girls caught in the middle. Set in Atlanta in the 1980s, the novel revolves around James Witherspoons two familiesthe 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 charactersthe father, the two mothers, the grandmother, and the uncleshe reveals the joy, as well as the destruction, they brought to one anothers lives. At the heart of it all are the two lives at stake, and like the best writersthink Toni Morrison with The Bluest EyeJones portrays the fragility of these young girls with raw authenticity as they seek love, demand attention, and try to imagine themselves as women.
