There Is No Me Without You : One Womans Odyssey to Rescue Her Countrys Children

English

ISBN: 1596912936

EAN: 9781596912939

Category: Social Science / Sociology / General/Health & Fitness / Diseases / AIDS & HIV/Social Science / Children's Studies/Medical / AIDS & HIV/

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Release Date: 06/26/2011

Synopsis: Two-time National Book Award nominee Melissa Fay Greene puts a human face on the African AIDS crisiswith this powerful story of one woman working to save her countrys 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 Youis 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. Winner of Ellemagazines 2006 readers award in nonfiction.

Awards: American Library Association Notable Books – null  American Library Association Notable Books – null 

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There Is No Me Without You : One Womans Odyssey to Rescue Her Countrys Children

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Paperback

Height: 1.39 inches

Width: 5.44 inches

Length: 8.29 inches

Weight: 16.83 oz

Pages: 480