Book description
Two-time National Book Award nominee Melissa Fay Greene puts a human
face on the African AIDS crisis with this powerful story of one woman
working to save her country's children.
After losing her husband and daughter, Haregewoin Teferra, an Ethiopian
woman of modest means, opened her home to some of the thousands of
children in Addis Ababa who have been left as orphans. There Is No Me
Without You
is the story of how Haregewoin transformed her home into an orphanage
and day-care center and began facilitating adoptions to homes all over
the world, written by a star of literary nonfiction who is herself an
adoptive parent. At heart, it is a book about children and parents,
wherever they may be, however they may find each other. Melissa Fay
Greene, award-winning author of Praying for Sheetrock
, The Temple Bombing
, and Last Man Out
,
relates
a tale that captures the tragedy of an international epidemic and the
remarkable people inventing ways to care for its victims. Her Dec. 2002
New York Times Sunday Magazine
on the plight of the AIDS orphans inspired scores of adoptions and
generated tens of thousands of dollars for the underfunded orphanages of
Africa. She has seven children, including two adopted from Ethiopia,
and lives in Atlanta.
