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Tayari Jones

Tayari Jones is the author of three novels, most recently Silver Sparrow. She teaches in the MFA program at Rutgers–Newark University.*

The Lives of Babes

We often forget that significant cultural battles are waged every day on the playground. As adults, it is easy to harbor this utterly ridiculous idea that childhood is either a time of great innocence—think of a baby sleeping, of utter…