Tayari Jones, Author . Warner $23.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-446-52830-6
Based on the Atlanta child murders of 1979–1980, this wrenching debut novel is told from the perspective of three Atlanta fifth-graders living in the midst of the crisis. Tasha is a sweet, conflicted middle-class girl navigating the harsh...
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Tayari Jones, Author . Warner $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-446-53246-4
The legacy of a fatal accident haunts surviving family members in Jones's deep-felt second novel (after Leaving Atlanta
). As a young girl, native Atlantan Aria Jackson lost her father and baby sister in a car accident; her inability to comfort...
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Tayari Jones, Algonquin, $19.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-56512-990-0
A coming-of-age story of sorts, Jones's melodramatic latest (after The Untelling) chronicles the not-quite-parallel lives of Dana Lynn Yarboro and Bunny Chaurisse Witherspoon in 1980s Atlanta. Both girls—born four months apart—are the daughters of...
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Tayari Jones. Algonquin, $26.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-61620-134-0
Jones (Silver Sparrow) lays bare the devastating effects of wrongful imprisonment in this piercing tale of an unspooling marriage. Roy, an ambitious corporate executive, and Celestial, a talented artist and the daughter of a self-made millionaire,...
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Tayari Jones. Knopf, $30 (368p) ISBN 978-0-525-65918-1
Jones (An American Marriage) delivers a triumphant novel of two motherless girls from rural Honeysuckle, La., who follow very different paths into adulthood. Vernice “Niecy” Davis is orphaned as an infant and raised reluctantly by her free-spirited...
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