Sisters of the Desert Sun Read Tayari Jones' Silver Sparrow

For our July selection we will be reading award winning author, Tayari Jones' latest novel, Silver Sparrow.  We will be attending a reading with Jones on Saturday, July 9, 2011, 7:00 p.m. at Changing Hands Bookstore, afterwhich Sisters of the Desert Sun will host a wine and cheese reception for our visiting author.  The reception is open to members of Sisters of the Desert Sun and invited guests.  For more information e-mail us at sistersofthedesertsun@gmail.com

Publisher's Overview:

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 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 when secrets are revealed and illusions shattered. As Jones explores the backstories of her rich yet flawed characters—the father, the two mothers, the grandmother, and the uncle—she also reveals the joy, as well as the destruction, they brought to one another’s lives.