ONCE UPON A TIME A SPARROW

Once Upon a Time a Sparrow is an autobiographically inspired novel about a woman&rsquo,s journey toward accepting a less than perfect past. Structurally the story is told through the narrative voices of forty-seven-year-old Mary Madelyn Meyers (spring of &rsquo,05) and nine-year-old &ldquo,Maddie&rdquo, (spring of &rsquo,67). Though thirty-eight years separate these two points in time, a child&rsquo,s old coat with an acorn in the pocket reunites Mary with the long-forgotten Maddie.Mary&rsquo,s mother has died unexpectedly. When Mary opens the Lane hope chest at the foot of her mother&rsquo,s bed, she makes a surprising discovery