Fisseha was riding a bike down the basement stairs out on the porch, a squirrel was sitting on Jesse's head vulgar posters had erupted on bedroom walls the insult niftam (the Amharic word for "snot") had led to fistfights and four non-native-English-speaking teenage boys were researching, on Mom's computer, the subject of "saxing." She trained her journalist's eye upon events at home. When the number of children hit nine, Greene took a break from reporting. When the clock started to run down on the home team, we brought in ringers." "We so loved raising our four children by birth, we didn't want to stop. She's been praised for her "historian's urge for accuracy," her "sociologist's sense of social nuance," and her "writerly passion for the beauty of language."īut Melissa and her husband have also pursued a more private vocation: parenthood. Greene is best known for her books on the civil rights movement and the African HIV/AIDS pandemic. Feodor Vassilyev, who, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, gave birth to sixty-nine children in eighteenth-century Russia."
When the two-time National Book Award finalist Melissa Fay Greene confided to friends that she and her husband planned to adopt a four-year-old boy from Bulgaria to add to their four children at home, the news threatened to place her, she writes, "among the greats: the Kennedys, the McCaughey septuplets, the von Trapp family singers, and perhaps even Mrs. A loving portrait of a unique twenty first-century family with nine children as it wobbles between disaster and joy: "We so loved raising our four children by birth, we didn't want to stop.
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