Taking Leave of Innocence: Life, AIDS and DEATH in a Family:

The experience related in this book shares the agony of a family's journey through the trials of AIDS and death. The episode crossed the continents of Africa, Europe, North and South America, and tells the tales of a family's struggles with this devastating illness. Death is unceasing; grief lingers. As I crossed paths with Sakile in the Southwestern town of Soweto, I grieved with her family. The lingering effects of her death still haunts the neighborhood. Her mother, Pumla remains grief s...