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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. The vast numbers of children orphaned by AIDS, shunned by a society that still attaches a stigma to the disease, overwhelmed her. But then she met Haregewoin Teferra, a woman who gave up her comfortable, middle-class life to take in these orphans.
Many of Teferra's children were themselves middle-class students who, as soon as they tested positive for the HIV virus, were disowned by their parents, their friends, and their schools; others had been living on the streets since birth. Their heartrending personal stories are intertwined with statistics and a history of HIV infection in Africa. Touching and profound, this book is recommended for public and academic libraries.
— Elizabeth Williams
Washoe County Library System, Reno, NV
