In Northern Ireland, from the late 70s to the early 90s, the IRA killed over 40 alleged informers.

But the man who often found, tortured and sometimes killed these people on behalf of the IRA

was himself an informer, a secret British army agent with the codename Stakeknife.

Who gets to play God? And why me? Why my family?

When lies are still being told to this day, who do you believe?

I wouldn't even know where to start, and I'm with the IRA.

Steakknife.

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but how are American authors responding to these challenging times?

And who better to start with then Tyari Jones, whose brilliant novel and American marriage

won the 2019 Women's Prize for Fiction, spanning themes from societal expectations of female sacrifice

to the injustice of the prison system through the prism of one struggling

African-American couple.

Her latest publication actually predates her prize winner.

Silver Sparrow is Jones' third novel, which at one point seemed like it would never find a

home.

Happily, the intervention of the children's author Judy Bloom led to the publication of

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