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...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...
...result, Mountains Beyond Mountains is much more than a reserved journalistic account of Farmer’s career in medicine and public policy. When Kidder writes of Farmer’s ceaseless push for a “preferential option for the poor,” for equity in health care and for the eradication of HIV/AIDS and drug-resistant tuberculosis, he also tells of his own thoughts on Farmer—both personally and professionally. While all but one of Kidder’s previous books have been written in the third person, Mountains Beyond Mountains has lengthy first...
...very quickly realized that I’d have to tell a bit of the story of my relationship with Paul,” Kidder says...
...There’s a pervasive cynicism out there that I knew I’d be 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...