Tayari Jones

Silver Sparrow (2011)

This book started out really great. I thought it was an interesting premise and was really interested when it switched to the second daughters point of view halfway through. I found the ending dissatisfying though and it didn't seem to have any sort of real resolution. Also I felt bad for both gi...

Leaving Atlanta (2003)

Leaving Atlanta tells the story of classmates Tasha Baxter, Rodney Green and Octavia Harrison during their fifth-grade year at Oglethorpe Elementary in Atlanta. "Might nothing. Think about it. You ain’t never heard of nobody black going around killing people for no reason. That’s white peop...

The Untelling (2006)