Under the Overpass

Number of Reviews: 4 (16 stars total)
Average Rating: 4/5


Title: Under the Overpass

Author: Mike Yankoski

# of pages: 217

Genre: Homelessness, religion, compassion, relationships.

Jeremy Vaags

4/5 stars

Author: Mike Yankoski is an ambitious man with a dream. He wanted to put himself into the shoes of our homeless community. He was willing to drop everything and put his life at risk just to bring perspective into peoples minds and hearts.

To document his journey he wrote in a journal frequently and turned his journaling into a book about his whole experience and the people he met and the difficulties he had to overcome.

Book: This book is a tale of two friends who gave up everything to be homeless. They wanted to see what life was like In poverty, they made friendships and had life changing experiences.

Evaluate: This book is pretty good for discussions. Its a good read and can be reflected on fairly easy, you can personally connect with some of the stories depending on your life experiences. Overall it's a pretty good book and I would recommend it to anyone looking for an interesting true story the homeless community.



Title: Under the Overpass
Author: Mike Yankoski
Pages: 217
Genre(Tags): journal, homelessness, thankfulness
Reviewer: Chelsea Asman
Rating: 4/5 stars

Author
Mike Yankoski is a young man when this book takes place and he has decided to step out into faith and live on the streets. He talks about his experiences. He now is married and speaks at churches and other places.

voice/style
It is story like. Just talking about his experiences.

Book
big idea/summary
It is him and his friends experiences on the streets. What they went through and how they were treated because they were living on the streets. You learn lots from their experiences.

Format
Journal style

Evaluation/Relevance
It was good because it was a really interesting idea. To hear about how they were treated was surprising and it really opens your eyes to how some christians actually act. It talks a lot about being thankful of what you have. They have a completely new understanding of thankfulness because they had to depend on God for so much more of our lives. It was very easy to right PCR's on and there was a lot to talk about for group discussions. There is also a lot of biblical support.

Title: Under the Overpass
Author: Mike Yankoski
Pages: 235
Genre(Tags): Faith-based drama
Reviewer: Donovan David Turner
Rating: 4/5

Author: I think the best part of the book is it being from a first person perspective. You get to see what they do. Mike does a good job at showing how real the streets cam be.

Book: This book is based around how people live on the streets and to get a good perspective they wanted to live on the streets. They have interesting encounters with different homeless people that shocked me.

Evaluation/Relevance: this book had good PCRs because there are so many different feeling that can be felt throughout this book. Discussion can have really good points.


Title: Under The Overpass Author: Mike Yankoski Pages: 221 pages Genre: non-fiction; homelessness, poverty, adventure Reviewer: Jessica Steffano Rating: 4/5 Mike Yankoski was a student when he wrote his journal entries to create this book , he Is a man of Faith set out on a journey to experience the unknown of being a “hobo”—homeless.
Yankoski was a Christian man who has been called to set out on a journey of faith on the streets of America. The book was an easy read due to the easy font, good size of font and only 221 pages. He wrote this book in journal entries and divided each chapter into each new city he visited. I thought this book would be very good for discussions, it contains multiple lists to further discuss. It connected to life, because there is poverty on even the streets of your own city, so I think we could really relate with the “surprise” of what we don’t realize. I did learn from this book. I think we always try to pretend that, ”Oh, that couldn’t happen here”, but really it can. And it does. I started to think more on what I take for granted in my life.