We Are All the Same - by Jim Wooten (Paperback)

About the Book

Nkosi Johnson, a South African boy born with AIDS, was given only a few years to live, but his ailing mother crossed her country's divisions of race and class to bring him to Gail Johnson who raised him for his last year of life. Nkosi, in Nelson Mandela's words, was "an icon of the struggle for life."

Book Synopsis

"Wooten has pulled off something close to miraculous... and touched the face of HIV/AIDS with compassion and humanity. --Alexandra Fuller, Chicago Tribune

"This is a book not to be missed." --People

"Amazing and tender... in this special book [Wooten] brings home the tragedy of AIDS." --Liz Smith, New York Post

"Wooten rightly disregards journalistic distance and writes himself into the work, making it read like a contemplative literary memoir." --Time Out New York

Review Quotes

Wooten has pulled off something close to miraculous... and touched the face of HIV/AIDS with compassion and humanity. (Alexandra Fuller, "Chicago Tribune") This is a book not to be missed. ("People ") Amazing and tender... in this special book [Wooten] brings home the tragedy of AIDS. (Liz Smith, "New York Post") Wooten rightly disregards journalistic distance and writes himself into the work, making it read like a contemplative literary memoir. ("Time Out New York")

About the Author

Jim Wooten is ABC News' Senior Correspondent and contributes to World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, Nightline, Good Morning America, and other ABC News broadcasts. In 1994, his reports from Rwanda and Zaire for World News Tonight and Nightline won the Overseas Press Club Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Award, and the Joe Alex Morris Award from Harvard University for distinguished foreign reporting. Before joining ABC News, Wooten had been on the staff of Esquire magazine; written a column for the Philadelphia Inquirer; and served as a bureau chief, national correspondent, and White House correspondent for The New York Times.