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. (Algonquin Books)Ī purchase of An American Marriage from Book Soup will receive a numbered wristband for preferential signing line placement after the discussion.Almost everything about Tayari Jones' new novel, Silver Sparrow, is cleaved into two halves. An American Marriage is a masterpiece of storytelling, an intimate look deep into the souls of people who must reckon with the past while moving forward-with hope and pain-into the future. This stirring love story is a profoundly insightful look into the hearts and minds of three people who are at once bound and separated by forces beyond their control. After five years, Roy's conviction is suddenly overturned, and he returns to Atlanta ready to resume their life together. As Roy's time in prison passes, she is unable to hold on to the love that has been her center. Though fiercely independent, Celestial finds herself bereft and unmoored, taking comfort in Andre, her childhood friend, and best man at their wedding. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn't commit.
But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South.
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