A Loving Testimony

Library Journal

This is a difficult book to read in one sitting, yet it must somehow be read. Seventy-seven writers (some well known, some not) contributed these essays and poems as tributes to friends, lovers, spouses, colleagues, and children who have died from AIDS. They are intimate and sometimes funny and also terrifyingly graphic in detail about the lives and deaths of ordinary people-who were extraordinary to those who loved them. This work will make readers reexamine their ideas on living and dying. Newman states: "Editing this book reminded me that anyone can contract HIV and develop AIDS, and anyone who does is not guilty of anything, except perhaps one thing: being a human being." Recommended for all types of libraries.-Lee Arnold, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia