Issa Rae Is Producing Tayari Jones' 2011 Novel 'Silver Sparrow'

Issa Rae remains books and busy. Issa recently finished filming The Photograph with Lakeith Stanfield and now she’s moving on to her next project, producing a movie. Issa Rae is producing Tayari Jones’ novel, ‘Silver Sparrow’.

Silver Sparrow is set in Atlanta, Georgia during the 1980s, and it revolves around a pair of young girls who form a friendship. However, only one of them is aware that they are sisters and knows that their father, James Witherspoon, is a covert bigamist.

Rae is set to executive produce an adaptation of Jones' acclaimed novel. She has multiple projects in development for a number of different outlets, all in different stages of development.