In a culture where AIDS orphans are viewed as trendy celebrity "accessories," it's easy to lose sight of the real heroes in the battle against this devastating disease. Journalist Melissa Fay Greene reminds us in this wonderful story of Haregewoin Tefarra, a middle-class Ethiopian woman who overcame her own tragic loss by opening her heart and home to hundreds of orphaned children. Illuminating Tefarra's remarkable transformation from widow and grieving parent to zealous child advocate, Greene deftly weaves in dozens of heartbreaking vignettes; the tragic -- and infuriating -- cultural history of AIDS in Africa; and her own personal connection to the crisis (she and her husband have adopted two Ethiopian orphans). She accomplishes all this in a powerful, impassioned narrative that also happens to be gracefully, lyrically, and beautifully told. Could we ask for more?