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...Farmer is an impossibly busy man: an influential medical fundraiser, a sharp critic of U.S. policy towards the developing world and a practicing physician with his feet in what seems like a thousand clinics at once. He splits his time between regular rounds at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the free medical complex he founded in Cange, a rural settlement in the most impoverished part of Haiti...
...months, Kidder compiled interviews on Farmer’s life and work, filling page after page with what he calls “compulsive” notes on the process. Kidder accompanied Farmer on innumerable red-eye flights and hiked to house-calls in the Haitian countryside, staining his notes with sweat. “Frankly, I’ve lost count of the times I went to Haiti,” Kidder says. In January of 2000, Farmer recalls, the author spent the full month with him, “pretty much 24/7...
...fighting against,” Kidder says. “I knew you needed a first-person narrator to tell you this is true…it’s this idea of having an everyman who’s much less virtuous than Farmer to bear witness to the fact that this guy’s real…It’s not enough to just say, oh, well it happened and therefore I can just set it down...
...first-person aspect of Mountains Beyond Mountains is more than an insurance policy on the book’s credibility. The work also contains passages exploring the enthusiasm and ambivalence Kidder felt as he watched and heard Farmer outlining the world’s inequities in the starkest and most accusatory of terms...
...also describes instances where he challenged Farmer’s inflexible idealism and doubted the man that many say is perfect. (Kidder dutifully records just how Farmer won almost all of their intellectual debates.) The pair, as Kidder tells it, are in nearly constant dialogue—and, towards the end of the book, something like conflict...