Published: 2020, Oneworld Publications Genre: Fiction Themes: Marriage, bigamy, teenagers, American south My rating (out of 5): ❤❤❤❤ Bigamy is a game for scoundrels, where you have no winners, and when the final whistle blows all you have is a mess. In order to make the deception work over a period of years, one of the wives must understand what is happening, and enable her part-time husband to run his life as though he is not a criminal. Just in case none of us has any idea why anyone would want to agree to that, Tayari Jones wrote Silver Sparrow to help us along. The first time James Witherspoon got married he was still at school and it was a barely legal ceremony held across state lines. He and his fourteen year old girlfriend Laverne had already been refused a license in Atlanta, as the judge was not convinced she consented to the union, but James and Laverne's mothers were determined to see the thing through as Laverne was pregnant. They finally...