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...Paul E. Farmer is no stranger to the spotlight, but seeing his life set out in 336 frank pages was more than he had bargained...
...When I read the manuscript and told him I felt a bit over-exposed, [Kidder] expressed a bit of genuine sympathy with my predicament but did not offer to change anything,” Farmer writes in an e-mail...
Farmer’s intense, personal and sometimes combative relationship with Kidder had begun nearly a decade earlier with a chance meeting in Haiti, where Farmer operates a free medical clinic he founded in the mid-eighties. Kidder was researching an article on American military presence in the troubled island nation...
...Kidder was conducting interviews for a New Yorker profile of the outspoken doctor—and soon was shadowing Farmer on his daily routine of healing and advocating for the world’s destitute...
Kidder has just published the results in Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World—an account as challenging as it is edifying. His latest non-fiction book is really two works in one: alongside the litany of Farmer’s achievements, recited with his usual eye for detail, Kidder unflinchingly explores the moral and emotional complexity surrounding the book’s creation...