Hidden in the rubble : a Haitian pilgrimage to compassion and resurrection /

Straub's own story-that of a former producer of daytime soap operas General Hospital and The Doctors who left it behind to document the lives of the world's poor-is in itself remarkable, but his most recent book (a successor to his The Sun and Moon over Assisi and Thoughts of a Blind Beggar) is another revelation. It chronicles his experiences in Haiti before, during, and after the worst devastations of the earthquake in the Cite Soleil slum of Port-au-Prince. In the midst of the pain he witnesses, Straub finds a space for God, both in the compassion the world shows to its poorest and in the caregiver's experience of God as "a beggar of love." VERDICT A skillfully written and clear-eyed account of Haiti's misfortune and our own perspective of this disaster, as well as an interesting avenue into his deeply personal religious experience, Straub's book should appeal to Christian and non-Christian caregivers of all sorts. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.