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Silver sparrow [large print] by Tayari Jones. /

Jones, Tayari. (Author).

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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.

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  • ISBN: 1410440133
  • ISBN: 9781410440136
  • Physical Description: 461 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
  • Edition: [large print]
  • Publisher: Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, 2011.

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Accelerated Reader AR UG 4.9 13 144666.

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African American families > Fiction.
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Polygamy.
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Domestic fiction.
Large print books.

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