14 Books Set in the 1980s, From Malibu Rising to Trust Exercise

In Silver Sparrow ($11, originally $17), Tayari Jones weaves a tale of one man and his two families — the public one and the private one. Throughout the novel, which is set in Atlanta in the 1980s, James Witherspoon's two teenage daughters — one from each of his families — develop a friendship, but only one of the girls knows that they're sisters.