When We Are Called to Part

Hope and Heartbreak in the Vanishing World of the Kalaupapa Leprosy Settlement

De: Brooke Jarvis

Narrado por: Brooke Jarvis

It was known as the Living Grave: A remote Hawaiian peninsula called Kalaupapa, housing the largest settlement for leprosy patients in the United States. Once it had been a forbidding place of exile, inhabited by thousands of the disease's victims who had been removed from their families and confined against their will, far away from a society that feared and misunderstood their condition.

When Brooke Jarvis came across a posting for a job in Kalaupapa, tending to the needs of the handful of remaining patients, it seemed like an impossibly exotic opportunity for a college student. But what she found there was both more remarkable and more familiar than what she had imagined. When We Are Called to Part is the absorbing, affecting, and often funny story of life in the last years of a rapidly vanishing community.

©2013 Brook Jarvis and The Atavist (P)2013 Brook Jarvis and The Atavist

Short but good

Not the longest most in depth book but an interesting and unique topic. I found it refreshingly different and I learned a lot. Not a huge time commitment nor financial, so I say go for it!