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""A powerful, important book for our age."" --Abraham Verghese, author Cutting For Stone Passionately written by journalist Marilyn Berger, This is a Soul is the moving and inspiring story of Dr. Rick Hodes, an American doctor living in Ethiopia, who has devoted his life to caring for the sickest of the sick and the poorest of the poor. Dr. Hodes's life and work makes for fascinating reading, especially for those who have been profoundly touched by Tracy Kidder's Mountains Beyond Mountains.

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""Marilyn Berger's story fulfills our dream that there still is caring in the world. Rick Hodes' overwhelming devotion to saving children with little or no hope of survival is stirring. And, inspired by Rick, her own decision to save a child has transformed her life. The story she tells might transform yours."" - Alan Alda ""There isn't a living physician whose life and quiet heroism I have admired more than the subject of this extraordinary book. Rick Hodes cares little if the world knows of his work, and yet he has much to teach the world about an empathic civilization, and how boundaries and nationhood are meaningless in the face of suffering. Marilyn Berger has more than done Rick's story justice, avoiding hagiography, while giving us the Rick I know and love: the astute clinician, the incredible adoptive father of five children and unofficial father to so many more, the teacher, joker, scholar and most of all a man who quietly lives his faith. THIS IS A SOUL is a powerful, important book for our age."" - Abraham Verghese, author Cutting For Stone ""Dr. Rick Hodes' life story is a reminder that giving is a privilege in which we may take pleasure, not some saintly endeavor. His approach toward medicine should be a model for our current Western system in showing that tending to the soul is at the center of healing. This is a Soul envelops the reader in Dr. Hodes' indefatigable light and is an inspirational reading experience."" - Natalie Portman ""This is a miracle of a story! Marilyn Berger zeroes in on Ethiopia's terrible poverty and social injustice, felt most acutely by defenseless children, while also revealing a remarkably deep vein of humanity. Dr. Rick's heroic mission to come from America, not just to cure, but to provide a family for as many orphan children as he possibly can, is inspirational. And in a surprising twist, Berger's own discovery and developing relationship with one of the little patients is deeply moving. A must read that will melt the heart!"" - Christiane Amanpour

Author Information

Marilyn Berger is a contributing writer to the New York Times. She was previously a diplomatic correspondent for Newsday and the Washington Post, and was the United Nations correspondent for ABC News and the White House correspondent for NBC News. She was the moderator on the public affairs program The Advocates and anchored WNET's City Edition. She was the director of programs and public affairs for the Council on Foreign Relations. Her articles have been published in the New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, and New York magazine.

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