Saturday Is for Funerals

Unity Dow

Max Essex

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ISBN 9780674061835

Publication: October 2011

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240 pages

5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches

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Unity Dow is a practicing lawyer in Botswana and the author of four novels. She was formerly a judge with both the Botswana High Court and The Interim Constitutional Court of Kenya.

Max Essex is Lasker Professor of Health Sciences at Harvard University and has been involved in AIDS research from the earliest days of the U.S. epidemic in 1982.

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Honorable Mention, 2010 Association of American Publishers PROSE Award, Clinical Medicine Category

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2010

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