Tayari Jones is the internationally bestselling author of four novels, most recently An American Marriage, winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2019. Jones is the recipient of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, a United States Artist Fellowship, NEA Fellowship and a Radcliffe Institute Bunting Fellowship. She is also a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Born in Atlanta, Jones is a graduate of Spelman College, University of Iowa, and Arizona State University. She is currently professor of Creative Writing at Emory University and an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University.
'Jones conjures up 1980s Atlanta with conviction and has a
pungently descriptive turn of phrase… Best of all, you feel utterly
immersed in Jones’s knotty moral dilemma and as torn in your
loyalties as the characters themselves.' The Times
'It’s hard to resist the momentum of this dual coming-of-age story,
and Jones’s imperfect, large-hearted heroines are not soon
forgotten.' Observer
'This book is as moving, intimate and wise as An American
Marriage on the topics of marriage, family and womanhood, and
deserves similar acclaim.' Guardian
'Do not miss this can’t-actually-stop-reading-it novel from the
author of the Women's Prize for
Fiction-winning An American Marriage.' Stylist
‘Silver Sparrow will break your heart before you even know it.
Tayari Jones has written a novel filled with characters I'll never
forget. This is a book I'll read more than once.’ Judy
Blume
'Last year's winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction follows up An
American Marriage with another beautiful novel.' Good
Housekeeping
'One of my go-to recommendations to friends and family looking for
something to read. It's a story about a complicated family centring
on two half-sisters, one who knows the other exists and the other
who has no clue. A propulsive, unforgettable read about the
complexity of family.' Brit Bennett, author of The Vanishing
Half
'Heartbreaking… Silver Sparrow confirms Jones' immense talent,
particularly when writing about the more extreme pressures of
family life.' i newspaper
'Jones writes in a relaxed narrative style... She moves easily from
depictions of Atlanta between the 1960s and the 1980s to the
frustrations of teenage life and handles larger questions of birth
right and belonging with admirable capaciousness and
generosity.' Financial Times
‘Bigamy is what gives the novel its dramatic impetus, but it’s the
double coming-of-age story that gives it heart… [A] shrewd
exploration of off-the-record relationships.’ Sunday
Telegraph
'How does Tayari Jones follow up the Women's Prize-winning success
of An American Marriage? With an absolute belter, that's
how.' Red Magazine
'A book rich in complications and secrets...The nature of love
is one of Jones's central themes, and it's testament to her gifts
that we care equally about both girls.' Daily Mail
‘This dazzlingly real novel shines light into the emotional lives
of women: married, on their own, betrayed, battling for something
better.’ Sainsbury's Magazine
'Sparky, sharp, sorrowful.' Sunday Express
‘Charting a vast emotional unknown is Tayari Jones's compelling
third novel, Silver Sparrow, in which a teenage girl's coming of
age in 1980s Atlanta is shadowed by her dawning understanding of a
corrosive secret – her father's second family.’ Vogue
‘Award winner Tayari Jones weaves a tale of Black bigamy and two
families in the fascinating fiction of Silver Sparrow.’ Ebony
'Cleverly structured, emotionally punchy.' Daily Telegraph
'Another unputdownable dissection of the human heart and head. The
headline-grabber is its portrayal of bigamy, but more affecting is
the tender coming of age daughter's tale unfolding inside this
unorthodox family.' Big Issue, 'Books of the Year 2020'
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