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Book Synopsis"This is a personal, urgent, and universal book." —Gloria Steinem
Trade Review"
Tears of Salt is a tender personal memoir.… It is also a damning indictment of the broader, collective indifference of humankind to both the drowned and the saved." -- Philip Gourevitch
"A work not to be missed.… [Bartolo] limns his narrative with great compassion and humanity." -- Marjorie Kehe - Christian Science Monitor
"Heart-wrenching and relevant." -- Marion Winik - Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Poignant." -- Uzodinma Iweala - New York Times Book Review
"Through Dr. Bartolo we understand that it is impossible to do nothing in the face of such great human need." -- Vanity Fair
"Equal parts memoir, celebration of [Lampedusa] and report from the front. Above all, though, it is a plea for compassion." -- Edward Morris - BookPage
"At a time when our broken world seems to be encouraging, and lauding, the worst of humanity, along comes the remarkable Dr. Bartolo to show us what courage, integrity, and compassion look like. His life is a manual of what it means to be human." -- Rabih Alameddine
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Tears of Salt…reveals the human side of suffering through the life of one man." -- Adele Annesi - Washington Independent Review of Books
"Dr. Bartolo’s spare, poignant, angry account of his life as doctor to the refugees arriving on the shores of Italy is an unusual and important addition to the growing literature of migration. Anyone wanting to understand the disaster of what is happening around us should read this book." -- Caroline Moorehead
