Silver Sparrow (2011) (edit title/settings)

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• Dana Yarboro: tired of a life in the shadows,craves love and attention and being openly acknowledged and validated. Smart student and very inquisitive. Aspires to attend Mount Holyoke and eventually confronts her father's lies,infidels and his actions. Becomes a mother and learns that life is not fair...what doesn't kill you doesn't always make you stronger.....it just happens to you.
• James Witherspoon: a bigamist, Dana's father. A selfish man, a loyal son, bases his life on what he wants without fair assessment of what his actions are doing to others he is in relationship with.
• Ronalda: Dana's best friend,Nkrumra's sister. From Indiana. Has plenty issues of her own in terms of her mother being negligent and being shipped to live with her father and step mother in ATL. She is into an older man in the military, drinks and smokes. She understands Dana and offers her empathy.
• Willie Mae: Gwendolyn's best friend and Dana's Godmother
• Marcus Mccready: Dana's boyfriend. Son of the Tax Accountant for her dad's Limo Service. Her father hates this boy and his reputation and forbids Dana to date him.
• Gwendolyn Yarboro: Dana's mother. A strong black, intelligent woman who works as a nurse and wants every advantage for her duaghter. However, she is willing to settle for less in her own life! Pretty, sophisticated and adored by Raleigh and James...but not enough to openly acknowledge marriage?
• Mary: Add a description of this character.
• Grandma Bunny: James and Raleigh's mother. She died in the story. She did meet dana before she passed on, but did not ask her son any pertinent questions nor did she really play a significant role other than to pass on a broach.
• Mrs. Grant
• Clarence
• Laverne Witherspoon: James Witherspoon's wife. A beautician who runs the Pink Fox salon. Chaurisse's mother. She is a nice sweet and very unaware woman. Ignorance does not make one innocent. Takes her husband back after she discovers the truth about James and his deceptions.
• Ruth Nicole Elizabeth
• Jamal Dixon: Wealthy Pastor's son. One chaurisse gets intimate with
• Lincoln
• Chaurisse: Youngest of the 2 sisters who grew up in the household with her father James Witherspoon. Chubby, spoiled,sweet,girl who longs for acceptance and love from the people in heGood student who helps her mom out in the salon, the Pink Fox
• Diane: Second wife and mother of Dana. The woman who wishes she had fell in love with Raleigh first as opposed to James. She is a nurse in Atlanta by profession and loves her daughter...but is unwilling to be strong or courageous enough to build a life without James so her daughter can be whole. In my opinion, she is fractured.
• Mattie
• Lula
• Gracie
• Bo
• Davison
• Dr. King
• Mike
• Nkrumah: The brother of Dana's best friend from Indiana.

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• “"Wives can afford to let themselves go. Concubines must be vigilant.””

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• PEOPLE SAY, THAT which doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. But they are wrong. What doesn’t kill you, doesn’t kill you. That’s all you get. Sometimes, you just have to hope that’s enough.

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• Love can be incremental. Predicaments, too. Coffee can start a life just as it can start a day.

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• It’s funny how three or four notes of anger can be struck at once, creating the perfect chord of fury.

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• I believe in the eventuality of things. What’s done in the dark shall come to the light. What goes up comes down. What goes around comes around. There are a million of these sayings, all, in their own way, true. And isn’t that what’s supposed to set you free?

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• Abandonment doesn’t have the sharp but dissipating sting of a slap. It’s like a punch to the gut, bruising your skin and driving the precious air from your body.

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• “The key to life,” he told me once, “is to avoid the highs and the lows. It’s the peaks and valleys that mess you up.”

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• There was no way to know for sure who had heard what, so all you could do was live your life like no one knew anything while being scared that everyone knew everything.

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• I KNEW BY THEN that I would never have my mother back, not in the way I had known her all my life. When you have seen your mother shattered, there’s no putting her back together. There will always be seams, chipped edges, and clumps of dried glue. Even if you could get her to where she looks the same, she will never be stronger than a cracked plate.

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• But I lived in a world where you could never want what you wanted out in the open.

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• “If you have a brother, it’s the worst thing. If your mama has a boy to care for, she will show you the kind of love she is capable of. And once you see that, you will never get over it. You will be lonely for the rest of your life.”

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Atlanta
• Flora
• Mount Holyoke
• Alabama
• Africa
• Georgia
• Magnolia Room

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Tayari Jones (Author)

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• Dewey: 813

Notes for Parents edit see section history

This is a good book for young adults to read. There is some drug use and sex.

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• Books › Literature & Fiction