No Single Sparrow Makes a Summer

by Joe Manning (Editor), Darcy Thompson (Editor), Yennifer Coca Izquierdo

Perfect Paperback

Published January 1, 2018

Reviews

[Heather · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a unique book, special to those who live in Louisville. It is project of the Louisville Story Program where they worked alongside students from Iroquois High School to tell their diverse stories. Some were refugees fleeing their homelands and trying to fit in a new culture. Some of them lost their names when their first names were made their last names and they were known to everyone at school as Fnu (First Name Unknown) because that was what someone put on their ID card. Some had grown up in the inner city and know Louisville in a very different way than I do. Their stories run the gamut of human experience and yet the same threads run through all of them, the same threads in ours, and bind our hearts to theirs.

I had a little trouble getting into the book and the writing was uneven, as is to be expected with a dozen highschool authors, but over all I loved this book and would especially encourage anyone from Louisville to read it.

[Jessi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved this so much! I love hearing the stories of other people, and this made me have a new appreciation and love for my city and community. This was assigned as a textbook for a class, but I plan on purchasing a copy for myself.

[Andrew · Rating 5 out of 5]

I thought it was great that these students had a chance to write autobiographies and it was interesting learning about the diverse childhoods of different people.