And the Sparrow Fell: A Novel - Hardcover

Robert J. Mrazek is a former Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, the writer and co-director of the film The Congressman, and the author of nine books, including two award-winning nonfiction works and seven novels, the latest being The Bone Hunters and Valhalla.

We speak today of a divided America, but this book returns us to a Vietnam era when our nation was split to its core. And the Sparrow Fell describes in touching detail the ‘honorable wounds of war’ of those who fought to win and those who fought to end the war in Vietnam. My colleague and friend, Bob Mrazek, lived much of what he has written, and his reflection is a timely reminder of the meaning of honor and courage."—Dick Durbin, U.S. Senator from Illinois

And the Sparrow Fell gives as wonderful and accurate account of Cornell in those important years as anything I know—the histories and even the many decent books that discuss the events and their ambience that led up to the 1969 crisis don’t provide badly needed insights into the diverse characters of the time, including the students who supported the Vietnam war in the mid-1960s, and the diverse campus. This book does."—Walter LaFeber, Marie Underhill Noll Professor Emeritus of History and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow in the Department of History, Cornell University

Bob Mrazek has a wonderful feel for mood and character and time and place—all the ingredients that make his And the Sparrow Fell such a compelling novel. It grabbed me from the first page and kept getting deeper and more powerful."—David Maraniss, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of They Marched into Sunlight