154 reviews for:

That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row

Jarvis Jay Masters

4.17 AVERAGE

runningonwords415's review against another edition

4.0

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An essential first hand account of a youth’s journey from foster care to detention centers to death row. Now pardoned and found innocent, Jay wrote this autobiography while awaiting his death sentence for a crime he didn’t even witness. I was under the impression this book centered on his fight for freedom, but it’s a scathing journal of his childhood leading up to prison. Unforgettable but extremely heavy content.

lindseyfadden's review against another edition

5.0

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This book took me forever to finish, but that wasn’t because it was bad. It was beautiful and so sad and it broke my heart to read.

noahbw's review against another edition

5.0

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Such powerful writing. I had to keep reminding myself that this is not fiction.

unpeople's review against another edition

2.0

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I got 70% through and I don't understand the point of this book. A memoir of someone on deathrow.

asthepageturns87's review against another edition

4.0

challenging inspiring medium-paced

candelario_epub's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

ferris_mx's review against another edition

4.0

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Sad to see how the system let Jarvis down. Sad that so much hasn't improved in the 50 years since.

chandle5's review against another edition

5.0

emotional hopeful inspiring sad fast-paced

angelsbeforeman's review against another edition

4.5

emotional sad medium-paced

aj5629's review against another edition

3.0

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced