Silver Sparrow (edition 2012)

I'm going to have to wait for the paperback. I think I will love this book, but I downloaded this from audible, and the narrator is so distracting that I have to stop listening.

I'm going to have to wait for the paperback. I think I will love this book, but I downloaded this from audible, and the narrator is so distracting that I have to stop listening.

Read from December 02 to 10, 2011

I wanted this book to keep going! Don't get me wrong, it has a perfectly satisfying conclusion, but I wanted more Dana and Chaurisse.

It's so difficult for me to dislike anyone in this book even though so many of them did the wrong thing, but that also makes them believable characters. No one truly sets out to be evil and everyone makes a bad choice sometimes. It's how you react to that bad decision that matters. ( )

Excellent novel.... Very realistic portrait of a family ( )

This is one of those times I wish Goodreads would allow us the option of giving a half star, since saying I "liked" Silver Sparrow is an understatement.

I truly appreciate spending time in an understated novel. Tayari Jones writes with such a light hand about such weighty issues that I believe it accurate to compare her -- favorably -- to Anne Tyler and the early novels of Barbara Kingsolver.

As always, I will spare you a recap of the storyline, since that's already provided just fine without any more help from me.

I will not hesitate to recommend this to my customers, especially those coming off a run of white-knuckle thrillers who want something with more heart.

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