No Stars in Jefferson Park is an instant Chicago classic, excavating the deeply moving and complex personal histories behind the forming of a now-renowned theater companybut this luminous story also transcends any one city or art form. Here, Andersen boldly wrestles with the essential questions of love, loyalty, freedom, sacrifice, collaboration, self-discovery, betrayal, tenacity, forgiveness, and the intimate power of bearing witness to another's whole life. This book is a gift. Gina Frangello, author of Blow Your House Down: A Story of Family, Feminism, and Treason
Poetically weaving together memories and history, this is a work of staggering vulnerability about finding your place in the world through risks and mistakes, honesty and forgiveness, and loving deeply though it all. No Stars in Jefferson Park feels like your best friend sharing her tale in a dark Chicago dive bar over a glass of good bourbon. Sandra Delgado, actor, writer, and producer
No Stars in Jefferson Park shows us people who are complicated and messy, people who behaved badly and wonderfully and I loved them through all of it. Andersen takes us deep into a single, unique experience of class, art, disability, choice, love and loss; it is a timely, visceral, heartbreaking story. Amanda Delheimer, Artistic Director, 2nd Story
