There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Her Country's Children

There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Her Country's Children
by Melissa Fay Greene

There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Her Country's Children
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Author: Melissa Fay Greene
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-09-04
ISBN: 1596912936
Number of pages: 480
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA

Book Reviews of There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Her Country's Children

Book Review: Incredible book of one woman's struggle to care for an impossible number of AIDs orphans
Summary: 5 Stars

I listened to the CD version of this book before I went on a medical mission to Ethiopia fall 2009.
The book told me so things that I did not know about Ethiopia and Africa, and it was a real eye-opener about AIDs and healthcare in Africa, as well as the disgrace of the pharmaceutical companies who, with the complicity of western governments, kept AIDS medicines from a dying continent. The oral reading was elegant and made a deep impression. The words themselves demonstrate what a finely crafted book this is, and the narrating was superb. It is an incredible book. The weaving of the story of humanity, of individuals, of governments, of healthcare, science and history are amazing. My only disappointment was that Bloombury, the publisher of the paperback version, has fallen in the same trap that many other publishers have done. The current practice of the last few years seems to be cutting production costs by skimping on printing ink. This results in type that is so light that it becomes annoying and makes reading the book a far from satisfactory experience. And woe to the older generation who find it increasingly difficult to read the new generation of books with the dull ink. As for the book on CD, I would recommend it to EVERYBODY who loves books or has the faintest interest in Ethiopia, Africa, AIDS, the human predicament, history, or life at its best and worst. The book was completely engrossing, telling the tale of one woman's struggle care for an impossible number of AIDs orphans, of families lost and gained, and how her life's work intersected with multitudes of lives around the world. I drive a lot in my work, and each day looked forward to hearing what was happening next. I'm not sure about the hard back edition, having never seen it, but would suggest you look into it if you have an aversion to light ink as I do. The book also makes a great reference to keep on hand. For that reason the written form is valuable, but the CD version is, as I said before, impressive. I have not seen the hardback version, hopefully it is a better product than the paperback.

Summary of There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Her Country's Children

Two-time National Book Award nominee Melissa Fay Greene puts a human face on the African AIDS crisis with this powerful story of one woman working to save her country's children. After losing her husband and daughter, Haregewoin Teferra, an Ethiopian woman of modest means, opened her home to some of the thousands of children in Addis Ababa who have been left as orphans. There Is No Me Without You is the story of how Haregewoin transformed her home into an orphanage and day-care center and began facilitating adoptions to homes all over the world, written by a star of literary nonfiction who is herself an adoptive parent. At heart, it is a book about children and parents, wherever they may be, however they may find each other. Winner of Elle magazine's 2006 readers' award in nonfiction.

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