Max Essex and Unity Dow kicked off the American book tour of Saturday Is for Funerals in Boston at the Harvard Club on May 17th 2010. The book explores both the science and the personal stories behind the AIDS epidemic in southern Africa.
An Excerpt from Saturday Is for Funerals
I KNOW YOU STILL LOVE ME: SEXUAL TRANSMISSION Chapter 2 from Saturday Is for Funerals Divorces in Botswana are heard by the High Court; that is how seriously the country views marriage. By the time a marriage occurs, there will have been, at the very minimum, six family meetings, starting with those involving close family and progressing to those involving easily sixty or more extended family members. During the weeks,…
Virologist and Novelist Collaborate
They are an odd couple of co-authors. Max Essex, Chair of the Harvard AIDS Initiative and a world-renowned research scientist, teamed up with Unity Dow, author of four novels and the first woman to sit on Botswana’s High Court, to write Saturday Is for Funerals. The book, a hybrid of science about HIV/AIDS and the personal stories of African families affected by the epidemic, plays to the strengths of both…