Tayari Jones has not lived in her hometown for over a decade. However, much of her writing centers on the urban south.
"Although I now live in the northeast,” she explains, “my imagination lives in Atlanta.”
Tayari Jones’ third novel, Silver Sparrow, set in Atlanta, is a fast moving fire. It smolders, too. It grabs you at the first compelling sentence. You cannot choose between the daughters -- the sisters -- or between the wives, the friends. You read and you get caught up in it and you care and you care about everybody in it and you don’t want any one of these people even to break a fingernail. I liked this novel especially because I like to feel “all in” and Silver Sparrow pulls you in.
Listen to Tayari discussing her novel, Silver Sparrow on NPR’s ALL THINGS CONSIDERED
Read an excerpt of this critically acclaimed novel:
Other novels by Tayari Jones:
The Untelling (Warner Books, 2005)
Leaving Atlanta (Warner Books, 2002)
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