Melissa Fay Greene
Read by Julie Fain Lawrence

When an Ethiopian woman of modest means opens her home to AIDS orphans, lives change. With this immensely powerful story, a distinguished author and two-time National Book Award finalist puts a human face on Africa’s AIDS crisis.

Haregewoin Teferra’s middle-class life in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, was shattered when her husband and daughter died within a few years of each other. Bereft, she became a recluse, living in a hut near her daughter’s grave. Then a priest delivered two orphaned teenagers into her care.

The children thrived, and so did Haregewoin. As word spread, children of all ages began to appear at her home. It became known as the rare place where ailing parents and impoverished families could safely leave their children. Today, Haregewoin runs an orphanage and daycare and facilitates adoptions to families all over the world. With simple humanity, humor, and a sense of hope, she is facing one of our century’s greatest challenges: the AIDS pandemic that is leaving millions of children without parents to care for them.

With the flair of a novelist and the reportorial instincts of a seasoned journalist, Melissa Fay Greene tells a story of struggle, despair, the triumph of saved lives, and the renewed happiness of children welcomed into new homes.

Audiobook    Unabridged; 13 hours on 11 CDs
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MELISSA FAY GREENE is the author of The Temple Bombing, The Last Man Out, and Praying for Sheetrock, which was named one of the top 100 works of journalism in the 20th century. She has written for The New Yorker, Life, Washington Post, Newsweek, and many others. She lives in Atlanta with her husband and their seven children, two adopted from Ethiopia.