by Zahie El Kouri ‧ RELEASE DATE: Dec. 25, 2014
A slim yet insightful sensitivity-training guide.
A woman who had fertility issues offers information and advice on how to help others facing this situation.
Before giving birth to her first child in 2011, El Kouri went through years of treatments and miscarriages. She admits it’s easy to put the wrong foot forward with those struggling with infertility: “To be specific, almost everything I suggest you not say to your infertile loved one, I myself have said and regretted.” Following this relatable, rueful opening, El Kouri offers 22 short chapters outlining ways to support what she terms “ILOs,” or infertile loved ones. Recommendations range from serving as the “secret agent” for the ILO by scoping out and then providing her support at potentially upsetting events (baby showers, etc.); educating yourself on the emotional, logistical, and financial challenges regarding treatments (descriptions of the various procedures, shots, etc. are provided); and being understanding regarding surrogacy, an ILO’s decision to stop trying to get pregnant. She ends each chapter with a “takeaway tip,” usually coaching on what not to say. Her chapter on adoption, for example, concludes by recommending rephrasing “Why don’t you just adopt?” to “Is adoption something you’re interested in?” with the author also noting that “If you feel like you may have strong feelings about adoption, one way or another, that would inhibit your ability to be sensitive and supportive about the issue, consider not bringing it up at all.” El Kouri commendably shares her experiences in developing this pointed, practical support primer on a very sensitive topic. She provides enough detail to demystify medical terms (IVF, IUI, etc.) and wisely refers readers to RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association for more information. El Kouri largely focuses on women as ILOs, with male infertility issues only briefly mentioned. Still, her general overview and especially her tips on how to be mindful in deeds and conversation will serve anyone seeking to be more appropriate in these circumstances.
A slim yet insightful sensitivity-training guide.Pub Date: Dec. 25, 2014
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 47
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services
Review Posted Online: Feb. 27, 2015
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
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by David Grann ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 18, 2017
Dogged original research and superb narrative skills come together in this gripping account of pitiless evil.
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Greed, depravity, and serial murder in 1920s Oklahoma.
During that time, enrolled members of the Osage Indian nation were among the wealthiest people per capita in the world. The rich oil fields beneath their reservation brought millions of dollars into the tribe annually, distributed to tribal members holding "headrights" that could not be bought or sold but only inherited. This vast wealth attracted the attention of unscrupulous whites who found ways to divert it to themselves by marrying Osage women or by having Osage declared legally incompetent so the whites could fleece them through the administration of their estates. For some, however, these deceptive tactics were not enough, and a plague of violent death—by shooting, poison, orchestrated automobile accident, and bombing—began to decimate the Osage in what they came to call the "Reign of Terror." Corrupt and incompetent law enforcement and judicial systems ensured that the perpetrators were never found or punished until the young J. Edgar Hoover saw cracking these cases as a means of burnishing the reputation of the newly professionalized FBI. Bestselling New Yorker staff writer Grann (The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession, 2010, etc.) follows Special Agent Tom White and his assistants as they track the killers of one extended Osage family through a closed local culture of greed, bigotry, and lies in pursuit of protection for the survivors and justice for the dead. But he doesn't stop there; relying almost entirely on primary and unpublished sources, the author goes on to expose a web of conspiracy and corruption that extended far wider than even the FBI ever suspected. This page-turner surges forward with the pacing of a true-crime thriller, elevated by Grann's crisp and evocative prose and enhanced by dozens of period photographs.
Dogged original research and superb narrative skills come together in this gripping account of pitiless evil.Pub Date: April 18, 2017
ISBN: 978-0-385-53424-6
Page Count: 352
Publisher: Doubleday
Review Posted Online: Feb. 1, 2017
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 15, 2017
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by Elie Wiesel & translated by Marion Wiesel ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 16, 2006
The author's youthfulness helps to assure the inevitable comparison with the Anne Frank diary although over and above the...
Elie Wiesel spent his early years in a small Transylvanian town as one of four children.
He was the only one of the family to survive what Francois Maurois, in his introduction, calls the "human holocaust" of the persecution of the Jews, which began with the restrictions, the singularization of the yellow star, the enclosure within the ghetto, and went on to the mass deportations to the ovens of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. There are unforgettable and horrifying scenes here in this spare and sombre memoir of this experience of the hanging of a child, of his first farewell with his father who leaves him an inheritance of a knife and a spoon, and of his last goodbye at Buchenwald his father's corpse is already cold let alone the long months of survival under unconscionable conditions.
Pub Date: Jan. 16, 2006
ISBN: 0374500010
Page Count: 120
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Review Posted Online: Oct. 7, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 15, 2006
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