![]() ![]() ![]() They're my father's daughters and they have different last names and we live different lives," Jones says. They're about 10 yrs older than me, but they didn't grow up with me. "I do have a sister - I have two sisters. ![]() Which is not to say that it Silver Sparrow doesn't have roots deep in Jones' biography. I would like to say that my father is not a bigamist." When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth. "When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. "It's funny," Jones tells All Things Considered's Michele Norris. While the book is fiction, that's an idea that can spark waves of curiosity from readers. And when these two secret sisters find each other and become friends, they lose as much as they gain in the process. The opening line of Silver Sparrow is, "My father, James Witherspoon, is a bigamist."Īnd while Dana, who narrates that opening, knows that she is not James' only daughter - that her mother is not James' only wife - Chaurisse does not. The one thing they share is their father, James Witherspoon, but even the way they know him is very different. Though they live in the same city, the sisters have different last names and lead very different lives. ![]() It is the story of two sisters, Dana Lynn Yarbor and Bunny Chaurisse Witherspoon. Almost everything about Tayari Jones' new novel, Silver Sparrow, is cleaved into two halves. ![]()
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