About the Book

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. Winner of "Elle "magazine's 2006 readers' award in nonfiction.

Product Details

Media: Paperback Book, 472 pages

Language: English

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Sep. 30th, 2007)

ISBN-10: 1596912936

ISBN-13: 9781596912939

Dimensions: 5.58 x 8.22 x 1.36 inches

Shipping Weight: 1.05 lbs

• Categories: Women Biography & Women Autobiography Aids and HIV Philanthropy and Charity