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On That Day, Everybody Ate: One Woman's Story Of Hope And Possibility In Haiti (2008)

by Margaret Trost(Favorite Author)

3.88 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0977333892 (ISBN13: 9780977333899)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Koa Books

review 1: Reason for rating: Nonfiction is not at all interesting to me. In fact, I find it quite boring. Especially with something like this. Very boring. This book took the longest to read out of all my summer reading books (though you could blame that on the fact that I was grounded which was the reason for finishing the other books one per day) even though it was the shortest. It was repetetive and never-ending, okay? Of course, I should be saying it was inspiring and stuff, which it was to me, when I was brainwashed by the book's boringness. (That IS a word. In my mind.)Anyways, I hope that everyone else finds this more interesting, inspiring, and all those other good things that are supposed to be in a heartbreaking nonfiction (because I really didn't). Thanks for rea... moreding!
review 2: "I was a 39-yer old white, middle class woman, who didn't speak Creole, had never studied Haitian history or politics or global economics or grass-roots organizing or fund raising or anything like that. I didn't know what I was doing. The problem was too huge. The number of people in need was too large.""...I would be getting on a plane in a few weeks to fly back to the Bay Area to my house with wood floors, painted walls, and furniture in every room. I had lamps and a computer, a full refrigerator and hot showers, a closet full of clothes and a car in my driveway. I had an education and a job, a doctor and a dentist. I had everything I needed to live in comfort. The contrast was overwhelming." These paragraphs really moved me, and explain how I feel about the inequities of the world. If you have a desire to change the world for the better, I highly recommend this book as motivation of what we can do. less

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