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    Silver Sparrow
    Audiobook10 hours

    Silver Sparrow

    Written by Tayari Jones

    Narrated by Heather Alicia Simms and Rosalyn Coleman-Williams

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    About this audiobook

    Chaurisse and Dana have a lot in common. They both grew up in Atlanta, they shop at the same stores, visit the same restaurants. But unlike Chaurisse, Dana knows the truth: that the girls share the same father. A father with two families, one of which he is determined to keep secret. When the girls meet and become friends, the unsteady balance of both their lives is threatened. Theirs is a relationship destined to explode.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW. F. Howes Ltd
    Release dateMar 19, 2020
    ISBN9781528899307
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    Silver Sparrow
    Author

    Tayari Jones

    New York Times best-selling author Tayari Jones is the author of four novels, including An American Marriage, Silver Sparrow, The Untelling, and Leaving Atlanta. Jones holds degrees from Spelman College, Arizona State University, and the University of Iowa. A winner of numerous literary awards, she is a professor of creative writing at Emory University. 

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    • 5/5
      Tayari Jones has done it like she always does. She is a unique writer that writes in such a way you see both sides and understand where they are both coming from. With her, it’s so hard to know her bias or her stance on issues. She tells the story for both ends and allows you decide for yourself your own side on your own. With this story, we see how bigamy plays on the two women and their daughters. How each other them react and try to “overcome” the situation. Amazing read for me!
    • 3/5
      I love love Tayari’s writing. I actually recommend her work to anyone who is in a reading slump. I really enjoyed the first part of the book (Dana’s POV), it was more interesting to me. James Witherspoon has a secret family and Dana is the illegitimate child, while Chaurisse is the daughter in his public marriage. The book explores secrecy, loneliness and desire.

      The ending was anticlimactic but the book is still worth it.
    • 5/5
      Wow! This book broke me. I need to sit down, gather my thoughts and come back to write this review. What a rollercoaster of emotions!
    • 3/5
      It was a good book but I hated the ending