Title: Useful insights, not righteous prescriptions
Review: This book is a welcome respite from the "damn or defend" approach usually taken to hot-button issues like HIV disclosure. Rather than inserting themselves as authorities who tell people with HIV what to do, the authors let people who are wrestling with all the complexities of HIV disclosure--with casual partners, with long-term partners, even with parents and friends--speak for themselves . The result is a portrait that won't satisfy those who want to mandate how it is people with HIV who live their lives, but also doesn't pander to people who want to whitewash away the uncomfortable truths about how people infect one other. Many of the voices here capture the complexity that gets lost in sound bites about HIV. This is just how it should be with a book about an issue that is simultaneously so everyday and so freighted with consequence for many of us. Get it. Read it. It will make you feel human, and appreciate the humanity of others.
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