Curtis Sittenfeld's new book,
You Think It, I'll Say It, is her first short-story collection. One of her six favorite books with strong-willed female protagonists, as shared at
The Week magazine:
Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones
Jones' justly acclaimed An American Marriage is a recent Oprah's Book Club pick; this 2011 novel is equally wonderful. Its teenage narrators are half sisters whose father is a bigamist, a situation Jones makes complex. She also magnificently captures details of teenage girlhood that are at once universal and specific to 1980s Atlanta.
Read about
the other entries on the list.
Silver Sparrow is among
Kyle Minor fifteen hottest affairs in literature.
--Marshal Zeringue
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