| THERE IS NO ME WITHOUT YOU One Woman’s Odyssey To Rescue Her Country’s Children There is No Me Without You (Bloomsbury, 2006) is the story of a middle-class Ethiopian widow, Mrs. Haregewoin Teferra [1946-2009] who, out of the multiple tragedies in her own life, opened her door to AIDS-orphaned children and was then inundated by them, nearly beyond her capacity to care for them all. Her path takes her from public adoration to denunciation and prison; but, then, it has been said that “even Mother Teresa was no Mother Teresa.” Along the way, she saved the lives of hundreds of children, many of whom began new lives with adoptive families in Ethiopia and abroad. For more information about Mrs. Haregewoin and the children, please visit this book’s original website, www.ThereIsNoMeWithoutYou.com. Mrs. Haregewoin appears (at 1:20) in film-maker Dorothy Fadiman’s 2006 documentary, Whose Children Are They Now?
Winner of Elle Magazine’s Elle’s Lettres Readers Prize Finalist for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, American Library Association Notable Book Booksense Notable Book Winner, with Mrs. Haregewoin Teferra, of the Fervent Global Love of Lives Award, Taiwan People Magazine Critic’s Choice
Named a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly Christian Science Monitor, Entertainment Weekly, Chicago Tribune The Atlanta Constitution, The Anchorage Press The Oregonian |
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