Avid Bookshop is proud to present acclaimed author Tayari Jones who is touring the country in support of her newest novel, Silver Sparrow. Silver Sparrow was chosen by independent booksellers nationwide to be the #1 Indie Next Pick for June 2011.
The Georgia Center for the Book will be hosting her on June 6 in Decatur and has nothing but praise for her work, having placed her novel The Untelling on their esteemed list of "The 2008 Georgia poo 25 Books by Living Georgia Writers."
The book will be released May 24 and will be available at our webstore:http://avidbookshop.theretailerplace.com/
This event is free and open to the public. Books will be for sale at the event for $19.95; cash and checks only, please.
Thank you to the Athens-Clarke County Library for helping us with this event.
About Silver Sparrow (courtesy of author's website):
With the opening line of Silver Sparrow, “My father, James Witherspoon is a bigamist,” Tayari Jones unveils a breathtaking story about a man’s deception, a family’s complicity, and the teenage girls caught in the middle.
Set in a middle-class neighborhood in Atlanta in the 1980s, the novel revolves around James Witherspoon’s 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 when secrets are revealed and illusions shattered. As Jones explores the backstories of her rich and flawed characters, she also reveals the joy, and the destruction, they brought to each other’s lives.
At the heart of it all are the two girls whose lives are at stake, and like the best writers, Jones portrays the fragility of her characers with raw authenticity as they seek love, demand attention, and try to imagine themselves as women.
“Tayari Jones is fast defining middle-class black Atlanta the way Cheever did Westchester…”
—The Village Voice
“Jones is a master and Silver Sparrow is a revelation, alive with meaning and hope.”
—Jayne Anne Phillips, author of Lark and Termite
