Publishers Weekly
Christian Science Monitor
Entertainment Weekly
Chicago Tribune
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Oregonian
The Anchorage Press
WINNER
Elle Magazine's "Elle's Lettres" Reader's Prize
Fervent Global Love of Lives Award, Taiwan, for Mrs. Haregewoin Teferra
FINALIST
The J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize
NOTABLE BOOK
The American Library Association
Booksense
translated into 15 languages
optioned by Dreamworks
BOOK REVIEWS
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An Atlanta Journal-Constitution Best Book of 20062006-09-03The tragedy of AIDS in Ethiopia comes into sharp focus in Melissa Fay Greene's powerful new book, There Is No Me Without You. Greene, who lives with her family in Atlanta, tackles the terrifying truth that in 2005, Ethiopia counted among its population 1.5 million AIDS orphans. Officials estimate some 12 million children have been orphaned by HIV/AIDS in all of sub-Saharan Africa. Read full review... |
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BooklistStarred Review2006-09-08 The horrific numbers behind the AIDS pandemic in Africa, "the most terrible epidemic in human history," have little resonance for most people in the West: "the ridiculous numbers wash over most of us." But this searing account humanizes the statistics through heartbreaking, intimate stories of what it is like for young orphans left alone in Ethiopia. Read full review... |
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A Christian Science Monitor Best Book of 20062006-11-28National Book award nominee Melissa Fay Greene wonderfully chronicles te true story of an Ethiopian woman who took in AIDS orphans. Read full review... |
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The Cleveland Plain Dealer2006-12-04A poignant account of an Ethiopian woman's attempt to help the smallest victims of AIDS in the disease-ravaged country. Read full review... |
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Columbus Dispatch2006-12-17In 2000, journalist Melissa Fay Greene read about the African AIDS pandemic in The New York Times: 12 million orphans in sub-Saharan Africa already and 25 million to 50 million predicted by 2010. Read full review... |
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The "Elle's Lettres" Reader's Prize: Best Nonfiction Book of the Year2006-12-01The much-admired Greene (Praying for Sheetrock) outdid herself this time, as reader after reader christened this portrait of a one-woman haven for Ethiopian AIDS orphans "an important book " that "challenges us to do something. " Read full review... |
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Entertainment Weekly PickGrade A2006-09-08 A powerful story— by turns sad, politically infuriating, and inspiring — and Greene brings her formidable intelligence and eloquence to the telling. Grade: A Read full review... |
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An Entertainment Weekly's Best Nonfiction of the Year2007-01-05Greene tells the unmanageable story of AIDS in Africa through her compassionate, clear-eyed portrait of a single ordinary woman: Haregewoin Teferra, a \"nice neighborhood lady\" in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, who, in the late 1990s, took in a couple of needy kids and soon found herself running an orphanage. African orphans have become a trendy and questionable celebrity accessory, but Greene's book makes it hard not to at least consider adoption. |
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The Indianapolis Star2006-12-03The life of one extraordinary caregiver in Ethiopia is used to paint a devastating portrait of the AIDS epidemic in Africa that has left some 13 million children orphaned. |
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Library Journal Review"Touching and profound, this book is recommended for public and academic libraries."AIDS has devastated Ethiopia, leaving scores of children with no family to care for them. What can one person do in the face of this immense problem? National Book Award finalist Greene (Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction) went to Ethiopia to find out. Read full review... |
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More Magazine2009-09-01Unforgettable...Greene brings Africa's AIDS catastrophe to us as bracingly as the movie Hotel Rwanda brought home the horrors of genocide. |
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One of The Oregonian's Best Books of 20062006-10-22Words are her medium, but numbers were the inspiration for Melissa Fay Greene's latest book, There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children. Read full review... |
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Outside Magazine2006-10-01Greene (Last Man Out), who spent months reporting in Ethiopia, details one woman's struggles to maintain a refuge while "the most terrible epidemic in human history was knocking...then it was banging with fists" at her door. Read full review... |
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People Magazine**** Critic's Choice2006-09-11 Greene's nuanced portrait of this heroine places Teferra at the center of a global crisis but never loses its focus on the innocent victims. Read full review... |
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A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2006Starred Review2006-07-14 Journalist Melissa Fay Greene explores the AIDS pandemic and an unlikely woman who became a local savior — in Ethiopia with candor, insight and personal attachment in There is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children. Read full review... |
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San Diego Union Tribune2006-09-10The tragedy of AIDS in Ethiopia comes into sharp focus in Melissa Fay Greene's powerful new book, There Is No Me Without You. Greene, who lives with her family in Atlanta, tackles the terrifying truth that in 2005, Ethiopia counted among its population 1.5 million AIDS orphans. Officials estimate some 12 million children have been orphaned by HIV/AIDS in all of sub-Saharan Africa. Read full review... |
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The Seattle Times2006-10-17Greene re-creates emotionally powerful vignettes of abandoned children and families ripped apart by death and disease. For instance, she watches one little girl repeatedly throw herself against the locked door after two young women, "rocking and moaning," leave without her and her brother. Read full review... |
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The London Times2006-10-28How do people make a difference in the struggle to deal with the only disease ever to be labelled a global security threat? The story of Haregewoin Teferra’s attempt to rescue Aids orphans in Ethiopia, shows how ordinary people — not blessed with Madonna’s resources — tackle the problem. More than a vivid, readable account of individual courage in the face of apparently overwhelming odds, this is an important book. Read full review... |
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Washington Post2006-09-28Melissa Fay Greene levels with her readers early in There Is No Me Without You, telling us, "I had thought I would write a hagiography, a chapter for 'Lives of the Saints.'" And much of that spirit of moral simplicity infuses her tale about a good-natured heroine, an Ethiopian woman named Haregewoin Teferra who chooses decency in the face of unfathomable horror. Read full review... |
PROFILES, COMMENTARY, INTERVIEWS, AND TALKS
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Adopting a Baby from Africa, Famous or Not2006-10-20Madonna's adoption of a little boy from the African nation of Malawi last week has enraged celebrity-watchers and commentators. Read full commentary... |
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Rescuing Africa's Children [video]Melissa Fay Greene talks about her latest book, There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children at Book Passage in San Francisco, CA. [VIDEO]View Content... |
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Critical Outtakes: An Interview With Melissa Fay Greene2006-12-26I'm at the awful crossroads of feeling unfinished with trying to relay urgent stories from the front-lines of the African HIV/AIDS pandemic (while waiting for a pair of brothers to join our family from Mrs. Haregewoin's orphanage), yet acknowledging that book sales don't seem to indicate public clamoring for an immediate sequel.. Read full commentary... |
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Powells.comFirst Haregewoin Teferra lost her husband. Then she lost a daughter. She had just about lost her will to live when, without warning, a nearby church in Addis Ababa asked her to take in a fifteen-year-old girl.Read full commentary... |
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Salon.com2006-09-12For Melissa Fay Greene, the enormity of the AIDS orphan crisis in Africa became impossible to ignore one Sunday morning in August 2000. After reading an article in the New York Times estimating that more than 12 million children in sub-Saharan Africa had lost parents to AIDS -- and that by 2010 those figures were expected to rise to between 25 million and 50 million -- Greene wondered who was going to raise 12 million children. Read full commentary... |
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The Ethiopian AmericanSeveral years ago, my husband Don Samuel and I, and our five children, welcomed into our family a small girl named Helen, age five, orphaned by HIV/AIDS, who had been living in an orphanage in Addis Ababa.Read full commentary... |
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Melissa Fay Greene: I Found 12 Million Kids I Couldn't Leave BehindMelissa Fay Greene, the author of "Adopting Helen" in our February/ March 2007 issue of Wondertime, is a two-time National Book Award finalist for Praying for Sheetrock (Random House, 1991) and The Temple Bombing (Random House, 1996) who has reported on topics including international adoption, the African AIDS crisis, civil rights . and balancing writing and parenthood. Since Helen's arrival, her family has adopted a son, Fisseha, and is awaiting the arrival of two more adoptive sons, Yosef and Daniel, all from Ethopia.Read full commentary... |
