Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I picked this book up solely because two of my Goodreads buddies have already read it and were singing their praises. This book has GOT to be the best book that I have read in all of 2011!!
The opening line of the book is "My father, James Witherspoon is a bigamist...." From there on, the story starts to take a life of it's own. This book is told through the eyes of two sisters. One knows the full story of his father's double life, the other living in a blissful ignorance until their two worlds forcefully collide. Dana feels that she has had the burden of being a secret and has always had the feeling that she is less than her sister Chaurisse. She has always had to take a back seat to whatever was going on in her father's other family's lives. Chaurisse, on the other hand, has always felt extremely lonely and disadvantaged, regardless of all the love that she has received from her mother, father, and uncle.
In all the books that I read, I try to take away from it a lesson that the author might have wanted his/her readers to know. In this book the point seemed to be that parents will mess up their children with the selfishness that they have in their personal lives. Though everyone in this book claimed to have great love for the two girls involved, the adults rared looked past their own needs to see how this was going to put their children at a severe disadvantage when it came to their emotional development. They are the ones who truly lost in the end.
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1 comment:
I HAVE TO READ THIS BOOK! I was going to try and squeeze it in before the end of the year but don't look like that will happen! Every review I read about it is great! Glad you liked it!
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