"At first I thought one of our trombone players was considering a change of instrument," writes Greene. Fisseha was riding a bike down the basement stairs out on the porch, a squirrel was sitting on Jesse's head vulgar posters had erupted on bedroom walls the insult niftam (the Amharic word for "snot") had led to fistfights and four non-native-English-speaking teenage boys were researching, on Mom's computer, the subject of "saxing." She trained her journalist's eye upon events at home. When the number of children hit nine, Greene took a break from reporting. But Melissa and her husband have also pursued a more private vocation: parenthood. Greene is best known for her books on the civil rights movement and the African HIV/AIDS pandemic. Feodor Vassilyev, who, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, gave birth to sixty-nine children in eighteenth-century Russia." When the two-time National Book Award finalist Melissa Fay Greene confided to friends that she and her husband planned to adopt a four-year-old boy from Bulgaria to add to their four children at home, the news threatened to place her, she writes, "among the greats: the Kennedys, the McCaughey septuplets, the von Trapp family singers, and perhaps even Mrs.
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