The Fall of a Sparrow

Robert Hellenga, David Birney, Alyssa Bresnahan

eAudio - 1998

"There is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow." - Hamlet V.II. The Fall of the Sparrow is the story of a family's struggle to heal itself after the violent death of its oldest daughter. At the heart is Alan "Woody" Woodhall, a classics professor at a small mid-western college, whose beloved oldest daughter, Cookie, is killed during a terrorist bombing, Woody finds himself standing in the cemetery where Cookie is buried, convinced that life has taught him all the lessons he has to learn. His wife has left him, and his two remaining daughters have grown up and moved away. Yet a new life, which Woody both longs for and resists, begins with his decision to attend the trial of the terrorists responsible for his... daughter's death. And as Woody gradually emerges from his sorrow, returning to Italy and the scene of the tragedy, he also awakens to new love. In The Fall of a Sparrow Robert Hellenga offers us insights into the emotional lives of both men and women, Italian... more