There is No Me Without You
One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children
Published on 25. August 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
496 pages
978-1-59691-293-9 (ISBN)
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
2 8-p color inserts
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 141 mm
Thickness: 34 mm
Weight
475 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-59691-293-9 (9781596912939)
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E-Book
12/2008
1st Edition
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
€12.49
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Person
Melissa Fay Greene is the author of Praying for Sheetrock, The Temple Bombing, and Last Man Out. Two of her books have been finalists for the National Book Award. She has written for the New Yorker, the Washington Post, the New York Times Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, Good Housekeeping, Newsweek, Life, Reader's Digest, Redbook, Salon, and others. She and her husband, Don Samuel, have seven children, including two adopted from Ethiopia, and are in the process of adopting two more. She lives in Atlanta.