Presented by Phyllis Armstrong in memory of Eugene McGregor. Library Journal:
Rovina, who grew up in South Africa but moved to a kibbutz in Israel and married a fellow kibbutznik (also from South Africa), was only 26 when her young husband was killed in the Yom Kippur War of 1973. Realizing then that "life is random and unfair, no one is immune from suffering," she decided to study occupational therapy at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem, moved again, and then finally settled in the San Francisco Bay area, where she found employment as a home health-care therapist at the Contra Costa County home-health agency. This is the inspirational story of her encounters with homebound patients, all sufferers of old age, devastating illness, or violence. Because she was one of the agency's few home health-care therapists willing to venture into low-income and often dangerous neighborhoods, that's where she was often assigned. With skill and devotion, Rovina cared for her patients, many of whom came to appreciate and love her for it. Not many home health-care therapists have written about their experiences-fewer still with such care reflection, and skill. Highly recommended for general library collections.