Tayari Jones has written a novel filled with characters I'll never forget. Impossible to put down.' * Los Angeles Times * 'An exciting read all the way through.' * Chicago Tribune * 'One of those 'just one more chapter' kind of books that require much last-minute changing of plans, because real life feels far less amusing, appalling, shocking, and loving than the world of its characters.' * Slate * 'Silver Sparrow will break your heart before you even know it. But more than that, Jones has created in her main characters tour guides of that region: honest, hurt, observant and compelling young women whose voices cannot be ignored.
Jones writes dialogue that is realistic and sparkling, with an intuitive sense of how much to reveal and when.' * Washington Post * 'Tayari Jones has taken Atlanta for her literary terroir, and like many of our finest novelists, she gives readers a sense of place in a deeply observed way. It is also, at turns, funny and sharp, haunting and heartbreaking.' * The Root * 'Silver Sparrow grabs you with a first sentence that manages to be both matter of fact and mysterious and refuses to release you until she has finished a story that takes you deep into the lives of a family that is anything but ordinary.' * Pearl Cleage, author of Till You Hear from Me * 'Award winner Tayari Jones weaves a tale of Black bigamy and two families in the fascinating fiction of Silver Sparrow.' * Ebony * 'A graceful and shining work about finding the truth.' * Library Journal (starred review) * 'Jones beautifully evokes Atlanta in the 1980s while creating gritty, imperfect characters whose pain lingers in the reader's heart.' * Kirkus * 'Populating this absorbing novel is a vivid cast of characters, each with his own story. One of literature's most intriguing extended families.' * Washington Post * 'Jones's prose is chock-full of lyricism, grace and wisdom.' * Observer * 'Silver Sparrow is rich, substantive, meaningful. Jones's skill for wry understatement never wavers.' * O: The Oprah Magazine * 'Jones is very good with character, catching the whole texture of a life in a phrase or two.' * Sunday Times * 'Populating this absorbing novel is a vivid cast of characters.
'Makes good use of multiple viewpoints and deals in the universal themes of love and trust.' * Fit and Well * 'A bruising, uneasy read at times, Jones' characters have depth and soul.' * My Weekly * 'Full of perverse wisdom and proud joy.
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