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Outside Magazine

2006-10-01 In 2000, there were 12 million AIDS orphans in sub-Saharan Africa, most living on the streets. In hard-hit Ethiopia, middle-class widow Haregewoin Teferra, still grieving her adult daughter's AIDS-related death, volunteered to foster some of the kids. Soon her modest home was overwhelmed by teens, HIV-infected babies, and rambunctious toddlers—sometimes 50 at a time.

Greene (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. She explores the history and politics of AIDS but stays focused on Teferra, creating a piece of journalism that's heartbreaking but never maudlin.

— Jason Daley, October 1, 2006