Saturday Is for Funerals

by Unity Dow and Max Essex

Book Overview

In the year 2000 the World Health Organization estimated that 85 percent of fifteen-year-olds in Botswana would eventually die of AIDS. In Saturday Is for Funerals we learn why that won't happen.

Unity Dow and Max Essex tell the true story of lives ravaged by AIDS--of orphans, bereaved parents, and widows; of families who devote most Saturdays to the burial of relatives and friends. We witness the actions of community leaders, medical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674061837
• ISBN13: 9780674061835
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.2"