Some fifteen years later Dana has a daughter. However, after two weeks James and Laverne reconcile. Laverne throws James out of their home and falls into a depression. Gwen and Dana subsequently visit Laverne's beauty parlour where she presents her marriage certificate and also presents Bunny's brooch as proof that James is Dana's father. However, Gwen arrives before they can leave and is infuriated that James intended to leave their daughter alone. When James arrives, Chaurisse is shocked that he insists on leaving her friend behind. Chaurisse calls her father and Raleigh for help and is confused when Dana subsequently panics and calls her own mother before locking herself in a gas station bathroom. When the girls are seventeen they go to a party together but the tire on their car blows before they are able to make it. The two become friends with the shy Dana eventually meeting and befriending Laverne as well. The girl is named Dana, and Chaurisse grows infatuated with her believing she is a "silver" girl who is beautiful and leads a charmed life. While out shopping Chaurisse meets a young girl and saves both of them from being caught shoplifting. They managed to claw their way to being middle-class business owners with James and his brother Raleigh running a chauffeur business and Laverne running a beauty salon out of their garage. Their son was a stillborn but Laverne remained with the Witherspoons. Her parents met at the age of 14 when her mother lost her virginity to her father and subsequently became pregnant and was forced to marry James and leave school. Her grandmother bequeaths her her favourite brooch as a parting gift.īunny Chaurisse Witherspoon grows up the protected and beloved daughter of James Witherspoon and Laverne Witherspoon. In her final year of high school Dana is introduced to her paternal grandmother, Bunny Witherspoon, as she is dying. While still a teenager, Dana becomes involved with a young adult man, Marcus McCready, and while her father is displeased he does nothing to stop her as he knows McCready from his married life. Dana is prevented from participating in certain jobs and going to certain schools in order to protect Chaurisse, however while attending a high school science competition she runs into Chaurisse who she notices is wearing the exact same fur jacket as her, both presents given to them by their father, James. Dana and her mother are kept secret, however the only individual from James's other life that is aware of the situation is his childhood friend and adopted brother, Raleigh. After Chaurisse's birth, Gwen pressures James to illegally marry her which he consents to though he does not leave Laverne.ĭana grows up with the knowledge that her father is married to another woman and has another daughter. Dana is born shortly before the birth of James's daughter Chaurisse, from his marriage to his wife Laverne. Her mother, a young divorcée named Gwen Yarboro, becomes James Witherspoon's mistress. Plot ĭana Lynn Yarboro's parents meet in Atlanta, Georgia when her father is buying an anniversary present for his wife. In 2019, the writer and actress Issa Rae announced plans to adapt the novel into a film. Jones was inspired to write the book by her own relationship with her sisters who were over a decade older than her and who she felt lived very different lives than her own. The novel follows the complicated relationship between two families, joined together by a bigamist father. Silver Sparrow is the third novel by the American author Tayari Jones, which was first published in 2011.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |