Thanks to Kelsey McBride of Book Publicity Services, I am giving away one print copy of Saving Jimani by Rene Steinhauer.
Book Description:
The earth shakes, buildings fall, hundreds of thousands of people die in minutes. Others lie broken and infected in the streets of Haiti begging, and waiting for help. An empty orphanage is the battleground for life and death in the Haiti Earthquake. Two hours from civilization, a small team of doctors, nurses and paramedics frantically struggle to save two thousand patients as the hope of survival dwindles minute by minute. The battle has just begun. And the medical team asks, “Can we save any of these people?”
Managing the twelve-person team, Rene Steinhauer, a weary combat medic, stands witness to human suffering greater than he ever encountered in Iraq. Rene partners with Danya Swanson, a “daddy’s girl” with a nursing degree who thinks she has what it takes to save the day and suddenly finds herself as the disaster manager for Jimani. Rene dries his tears and gets up to fight in a brutal battle where amputated arms and legs are piled up until somebody, anybody, has time to drag them to the fire pit. The battle rages, hopes are raised and dashed and thousands of lives hang by a thread. Can an inexperienced nurse, with no disaster experience, really save Jimani?
About Rene Steinhauer:
Rene Steinhauer RN, EMT-P, is an accomplished nurse with more than twenty years of skilled disaster experience. He has practiced medicine on all seven continents including working as a flight nurse in Antarctica, a combat medic in Iraq and a disaster manager in Hurricane Katrina, the Asian Tsunami, the Haiti Earthquake, and Typhoon Yolanda in the Philippines. Rene Steinhauer has spent much of the last twenty years as a disaster volunteer and continues to go where the need is greatest. He most recently worked as a chief nurse in an Ebola Treatment Unit in Liberia.
To learn more, go to www.renesteinhauer.com
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This sounds like a fascinating true story about this disaster nurse. Thanks for the giveaway.
Hello Teddy,
While one could hardly ask for more compelling literary material for an intense but deeply rewarding read, I’m not sure if this book is for me. Although simply reading the description drew me into Rene’s story and some small degree of empathy with the feelings he intimates were part of his experience, the description here is a little too enigmatic to inspire my enthusiasm.
I admit that this reluctance is exacerbated by the fact that I find the description of his colleague in crisis (that is the set up, right?) as a “Daddy’s Girl” unseemly. It could be nothing — a phrase chosen by someone other than the author himself or a misinterpretation on my part. I wouldn’t dare to venture a particular analysis on one turn of phrase, but it made me feel yucky. This response leads me to suspect the read would perhaps prove just as annoying as emotionally and intellectually rewarding (or worse, overwhelm its strengths with weaknesses). Do you see how one (e.g. I, Kara S) could perceive this as a terribly patronizing way to introduce a character in a novel, let alone an actor in events that form the subject of a memoir? Hmmm…I’m waiting and seeing.
This new book definitely has my attention now, in any case. Thank you once again, Teddy Rose, for introducing me to yet another previously unfamiliar new book with such unique and provocative content. The authors you feature aren’t made with publisher cookie cutters, as it were, and I guess that’s why I always enjoy reading about these individuals and their books regardless of whether a genre or book is up my literary alley! 🙂
Cheers,
Kara S
Love to learn about Haiti!
Thanks for the giveaway!
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