“My father, James Witherspoon, is a bigamist” With the opening line of Silver Sparrow, author Tayari Jones starts the story about a man's deception, a family's complicity, and the two teenage girls caught in the middle.

Set in a middle-class Atlanta neighborhood in the 1980s, the novel revolves around James Witherspoon's two families; the public one and the “family on the side” – 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 for trouble.

Join us for a discussion of this book as part of The NEA Big Read, a collaboration  with The Greensboro Public Library, The African American and African Diaspora Studies (AADS) program at UNC Greensboro, UNCG Libraries, The Arts and Letters Committee of the Greensboro Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. and the International Civil Rights Center and Museum.

To participate, in the discussion, sign up at this link. For more information about the discussion, contact Beth Sheffield. 

NEA Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest. Greensboro is one of 84 communities nationwide to receive a grant from NEA Big Read, an initiative that aims to bring communities together through sharing a good book.