Reviews

"It's hard to imagine someone who finds himself an outsider in one of the tougher neighborhoods of Latin America or Africa or other 'foreign' parts of the world—or someone interested in learning about one of those places—who would not find this book immensely instructive and moving."

—Paul Farmer, from the foreword. Click here to read an abridged version of the foreword published in the Spring 2008 ReVista, the Harvard Review of Latin America.

"The book chronicles Reifenberg's work with the children and his own struggle—to understand the culture and the language, and to find meaning in his own life."

—Colleen Walsh, for the Harvard University Gazette Online. Click here for the full story.

"As he struggled with a new language and overcoming cross-cultural obstacles like finding size-12 shoes, Reifenberg began a youthful voyage of self-discovery. It turned into a unique ground-level perspective on a country that was sowing the seeds of its own recovery."

—Pablo Pachelet, for America's Quarterly. Click here for the full review. Miami Herald journalist Pablo Bachelet's review of Santiago's Children will appear in the forthcoming Spring edition of Americas Quarterly, available on newsstands April 16, 2008. If you would like more information about Americas Quarterly, visit their website at www.americasquarterly.org.

"This book is a gem and offers a wonderful roadmap for students of any age who are thinking about engaging in a complicated world. It should make its way to every university career counseling office across the country."

—Abraham F. Lowenthal, Professor of International Relations, University of Southern California

"In Chile's recent history the 1980s seem like a forgettable interlude. Gen. Agusto Pinochet's reign of political repression gave little indication of the democratic prosperity that would later ensue. But Steve Reifenberg's new book shows how the 1980s contained the seeds of regeneration."

—Pablo Pachelet, for The Miami Herald. Click here for the full review.

Santiago's Children "sets the joys and frustrations, the hilarity and the gravity of life at the orphanage against the backdrop of General Pinochet's brutal military regime."

—The The Kellogg Fellows Leadership Alliance creates opportunities for Kellogg Fellows from 40 countries to leave a significant legacy as a result of having participated in leadership development programs through the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and regularly reviews books by Kellogg Fellows.

"Urgent and moving. ...The narrative fairly leaps from the pages when the political struggle comes into view. ...The tale is amazingly hopeful, in spite of, or because of, the struggles in question. ...This is a story of Chile we will not forget."

—Martín Espada, author of The Republic of Poetry and other award-winning volumes of poetry

Steve Reifenberg "recalls his life-changing work in an underclass orphanage during the political and economic traumas of the Pinochet dictatorship."

—Click here for the blurb in the Harvard Magazine online.