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An Entertainment Weekly's Best Nonfiction of the Year
2007-01-05
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Greene 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.
— Jennifer Reese
