Penitent, With Roses: An Hiv+ Mother Reflects (Bakeless Prize)

By Paula W. Peterson

A collection of essays by a white, middle-class, heterosexual Jewish mother describes the birth of her son, her diagnosis with AIDS when he was eleven-months-old, and her experiences as an AIDS... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1584651288
• ISBN13: 9781584651284
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Dartmouth College
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.8" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Gorgeous prose

This is a beautiful book. Smart, engaging, and heartfelt. It's also one hell of a good read. It's not one of those books that you will relate to only if you have the same problems, issues and challenges as the author (don't get me wrong--those are often great books too!). Peterson writes movingly about her specific afflictions, but she also writes about the universal human ache...and joy. Great book! Highly recommended.

A touching and well-crafted book

I found Paula Peterson's book to be an incredible story. Through her essays she provides an open, thoughtful and emotional insight into her experiences as a woman, a mother and an HIV+ person.But, the real story is the writing. This book is an example of a well-written and crafted work by a gifted writer.I recommend it strongly.

Truly a gem

I was fortunate to have received an advance copy of this jewel of a book. It is an enormously touching and extremely well-written book that everyone - and I mean everyone - should read. I sincerely hope that this is the first of many, many more books by this obviously extremely talented writer. In fact, I have already purchased a copy just to add to my personal "lending library" since I want to share but don't want to part with the only copy I have.