The Heaven Shop - Debra Ellis

In our Global Issues class, we are reading a book called The Heaven Shop by Debra Ellis. This book is about a girl named Binti who works for a radio show in Malawi, one of the countries in Africa, about how HIV/AIDS is spreading in their country really quickly, by using characters to catch the attention of the listeners and to be aware of this problem. Her parents died of HIV/AIDS, her dad was a coffin maker. I think this book is very interesting and is sending out a very important message through characters, like Binti's radio show.

I think this book is somewhat tied to Global Issues because the book has to do with denial, disparity, death, discontent, and disaster. This is something the world is going through, and most importantly, denial. People are burying their heads in the sand and aren't taking a stand for the world, to help it stop.

There were a lot of things I didn't know before I read this book, like I didn't know a place like Malawi ever existed, imagine how the world is neglecting this one country that earns its importance. After all, we only have one world...