Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones

Review by Cozy Specialist (March 2021): Tayari goes well with the Toni Morrison candle in our Cozy Home Collection. The wooden wick that sounds like a fireplace and smells like the Creator’s protection will enhance your cozy as you read the beautiful work of Ms. Jones. 

“With the opening line of Silver Sparrow, “My father, James Witherspoon, is a bigamist,” author Tayari Jones unveils a breathtaking story about a man’s deception, a family’s complicity, and the 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. This is the third stunning novel from an author deemed “one of the most important writers of her generation” (the Atlanta Journal Constitution).”