A Few Days More: The Story of a Young Woman Living with HIV in Botswana

by Anna Koblanck

Hardcover

Reviews

[Whitney · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this book while I was living in Botswana, and maybe that is why it hit me so hard. I had never really encountered the devastation of HIV/ AIDS until then, and walking through the story of the woman in this book often left me in tears. As I would be walking through the streets, I would seem to see her in many of the people I passed.

I was annoyed that the book pushed the use of condoms, claiming that they protect against STD's, when research and statistics have proven otherwise. I felt that they were quite misleading in this regard. Otherwise, the book was very eye opening and has a special place in my heart.

[Amber]

I read this book while I lived in Lesotho for a couple years. There seemed to be many parallels between the HIV epidemic in both southern African countries, and I noted in the margins about similarities I'd witnessed in Lesotho as I progressed through the book. I then mailed this copy home to my family in the U.S so they could read and gain a better understanding of what day to day life is like in this part of the world, with HIV touching everyone's life in some way.

This is a good read because it's so REAL.