RaveThe Portland Oregonian...the authors — whose masterful storytelling and spot-on reportage first framed many Americans' perception of the Tiananmen Square massacre — would celebrate the sugar-from-pills story because it hammers home what otherwise would be an esoteric point in the most personal of ways: from the perspective of a singular woman ... Half the Sky may very well be the literary equivalent of Mahatma Gandhi's 1930 Salt Satyagraha or Martin Luther King Jr.'s, 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery Marches, wherein peaceful means spotlighted, then helped shatter, an injustice historically tolerated ...deftly braid together the slippery strands of empirical evidence, research data and individual narratives to implicate gender inequality and the larger horror of grave indifference to women's human rights... Kristof and WuDunn beg you to do your part and, hearteningly, cite solutions — some remarkably simple, remarkably cheap — for every crisis they elucidate.
