Once Upon a Time a Sparrow is an autobiographically inspired novel about a woman\'s journey toward accepting a less than perfect past.
Mary\'s mother has died unex.
Though thirty-eight years separate these two points in time, a child\'s old coat with an acorn in the pocket reunites Mary with the long-forgotten Maddie.
Structurally the story is told through the narrative voices of forty-seven-year-old Mary Madelyn Meyers (spring of \'05) and nine-year-old "Maddie" (spring of \'67).
Once Upon a Time a Sparrow is an autobiographically inspired novel about a woman\'s journey toward accepting a less than perfect past