#BookADayUK 19: Still can’t stop talking about it

My biggest worry is that I’m going to repeat myself. I mean that in a general sense, as well as with the #BookADayUK prompts. I should have at least 30 books that readily come to mind, I figure, before I find I’m repeating them. But forgetfulness has always been a problem for me where books are concerned; I have the hardest time remembering what I’ve read.

However, for today’s prompt, if I interpret “still can’t stop talking about it” as “still can’t stop recommending it to my friends,” that would be Tayari Jones’s magnificent Silver Sparrow:

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

Set in a middle-class neighborhood in Atlanta in the 1980s, the novel revolves around James Witherspoon’s two families;the public one and 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 to explode. This is the third stunning novel from an author deemed one of the most important writers of her generation (the Atlanta Journal Constitution)

This is the book I recommended to my friend Andy, to my friends in Vancouver, pretty much to anyone who will listen. Consider me a fan. This was the first of Jones’s books that I read, and afterward I devoured Leaving Atlanta. (I haven’t yet read The Untelling, but it’s on my to-read list.) Jones is also working on a fourth novel, and I can’t wait.