Weeding Out the Tears: A Mother's Story of Love, Loss, and Renewal
- ISBN-10
- 0380973286
- ISBN-13
- 9780380973286
- Category
- AIDS (Disease) in children
- Pages
- 252
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997
- Authors
- Susan Dworkin, Jeanne White
Description
After contracting AIDS through a tainted clotting factor, hemophiliac Ryan White, at age 13, confronted the ignorance and bigotry all around him with strength and determination. The one woman who stood beside him throughout his ordeal, his mother, Jeanne White, now tells the uplifting story of their struggle to the bitter end, when Ryan died in 1990. of photos.
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