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Entertainment Weekly Pick
2006-09-08
 Grade A |
After watching her adult daughter waste away and die in 1998, Haregewoin Teferra, a bubbly middle-class Ethiopian widow, began taking in children orphaned by AIDS. Soon, her Addis Ababa home was overflowing, and this big-hearted, untrained, disorganized ''neighborhood lady'' became a touch point for Westerners trying to adopt.
Melissa Fay Greene dramatizes the epic-scale tragedy of AIDS in Africa through her flawed heroine's human-scale experience in There Is No Me Without You. It's a powerful story — by turns sad, politically infuriating, and inspiring — and Greene brings her formidable intelligence and eloquence to the telling.
— Jennifer Reese
