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_aGreene, Melissa Fay, _eauthor. _0(DLC)n 91026239 |
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_aThere is no me without you : _bone woman's odyssey to rescue Africa's children / _cMelissa Fay Greene. |
| 250 | _aFirst U.S. edition | ||
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_aNew York : _bBloomsbury, _c2006. |
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_aNew York : _bDistributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers |
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_a472 pages, [16] pages of plates : _bcolor illustrations ; _c25 cm. |
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| 504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [445]-456) and index. | ||
| 520 | _aThe 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. Greene's story focuses on one rescuer, Haregewoin Teferra, who has opened her home and compound in a rickety hillside neighborhood of Addis Ababa and taken in hundreds of the untouchables thrown in the streets and left at her door. She cannot turn them away. Yes, the comparisons with Mother Teresa are there, but this is no hagiography; the middle-aged Teferra is "just an average person with a little more heart." Greene tells the stories in unforgettable vignettes of loss, secrecy, panic, stigma, and, sometimes, hope, even as she documents the big picture of "the human landslide," the history and science of epidemiology and transmission, and expresses her fury at the "crimes against humanity" of the multinational drug companies whose expensive patents have denied millions access to the life-saving medicines. Just as moving are the personal stories of international adoptions in the U. S., including two Ethiopian children taken into Greene's own Atlanta family. The detail of one lost child at a time, who finds love, laughter, comfort, and connection, opens up the universal meaning of family. | ||
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