There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children, Library Edition

“Spectacular. . . it is our contemporary Schindler's List, one person's heroic efforts to right a tilting world." -- Alex Kotlowitz, author of There Are No Children Here When Haregewoin Teferra's husband and daughter died within a few years of each other, her middle-class life in Ethiopia was shattered, and she became a recluse. Her self-imposed exile was interrupted when a priest delivered first one, then another, orphaned child into her care. To everyone's surprise, the children thrived, and so did Haregewoin. As word spread, children of all ages began to appear at the door of her modest, tin-walled compound. Haregewoin's home became known as the rare place where AIDS-stricken parents and grieving families could safely leave their children. Soon Haregewoin was caring for sixty children, running an unofficial orphanage and day school, and learning firsthand about her country's and her continent's greatest challenge: the AIDS pandemic that is leaving millions of children without parents to care for them. There Is No Me Without You is the story of what one human being can do in a time of crisis. And at heart, it is a book about children and parents, wherever they may be, however they may find each other. 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, Washington Post Magazine, and others. She lives in Atlanta with her husband and their seven children, two of whom were adopted from Ethiopia.