Tayari Jones
Tayari Jones
Tayari Jonesis an American author and winner of the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award for Debut Fiction. She was educated at Spelman College, the University of Iowa and Arizona State University...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth30 November 1970
CountryUnited States of America
school years mentor
I take mentoring very seriously and as a result I hardly get any work done during the school year.
girl kind invisible
I was kind of an invisible girl when I was young.
lying want fiction
When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.
moving past passing
This is what I have come to know: Our past is never passed and there is no such thing as moving on. But there is this telling and there is such a thing as passing through.
writing people novel
When you write a novel, you make other people see your imaginary friends.
mean home writing
Remember that the writing itself is good for you. If your story is so close to home that you are afraid to write it, it probably means you need to write it.
girl writing organization
I take mentoring very seriously and I am on the board of an organization called Girls Write Now, where we match teen girls and writing mentors because it changes their lives,
grit ifs
If there was ever a time to boil up some grits it is now.
children hometown left serial took
My first novel, 'Leaving Atlanta,' took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a serial murderer that left at least 29 African-American children dead.
mother coffee heart
And this is how it started. Just with coffee and the exchange of their long stories. Love can be incremental. Predicaments, too. Coffee can start a life just as it can start a day. This was the meeting of two people who were destined to love from before they were born, from before they made choices that would complicate their lives. This love just rolled toward my mother as though she were standing at the bottom of a steep hill. Mother had no hand in this, only heart.
air skins body
Abandonment doesn't have the sharp but dissipating sting of a slap. It's like a punch to the gut, bruising your skin and driving the precious air from your body.
real writing emotional
When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess.
heart character home
Nine Years Under is a sparkling debut--- brimming with love and bursting with life. Booker's Baltimore is equal parts The Wire and The Cosby show. She doesn't shrink from the realities of life in an inner city funeral home, but she is also a loving witness, documenting the big hearted community that takes care of its own. Told with compassion, wit, and good old fashioned story telling, Sheri Booker gives us unforgettable characters who will make you laugh right up until they break your heart.