So Dana grows up with a father who visits once a week, a sense of being “outside,” and under the shadow of an accepted family. James explains that she is the secret and that she must never reveal the actual facts of their complicated lives. “Your other wife and your other girl is a secret?” Dana asks.
At the end of the month when she brings her drawings home and shows her father the portrait, he reprimands her. When Dana is around 5 years old, after being asked in school to draw her family portrait, she explains to the teacher that there are six people in her portrait because her daddy has two wives and two girls. The story of Silver Sparrow is told by the two daughters of James Witherspoon, Dana Lynn Yarboro and Bunny Chaurisse Witherspoon. Rather, this is a story of warm, caring people who make mistakes, people you’d like to meet, people you pull for every page of the way. The label “bigamist,” of course, usually denotes a villainous or sinister character.
There is so much talk these days about fatherhood—contrasting the deadbeat dad with the Bill Cosby-type father.Silver Sparrow, Tayari Jones’s third novel, begins: “My father, James Witherspoon, is a bigamist,” immediately drawing the reader into this engrossing and wry novel about the two families of James Witherspoon. A few of the questions came from Reading Group while others are questions that I’ve wanted to ask. Linky below.įeel free to discuss (or ignore) as many questions as you want to. If you wrote a review of Silver Sparrow, please leave a link of it in the Mr. Silver Sparrow was first published in 2011 and has been included on many best books of 2011 lists. Told from the viewpoint of James’ two daughters, readers see how James keep this life of lies going.  Set in Atlanta, Georgia in the 1980’s, it’s the tale of James Witherspoon, a man who’s married to two very different women. Today’s the day! Welcome to my 2 nd African American Read-In! This year’s pick is Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones.
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