I was intrigued by this title, Saving the World!! I was thinking, who was saving the world and why did the world need saving??? As I started reading the first few chapters, the story line appeared to be similar to A Year by the Sea, but then the historical piece Alma was writing began to pull me in as a reader! I wanted to know how the story would evolve. I was proud to know that my "mother country", Spain, had been instrumental in vaccinating people from the Caribbean Islands. Could one of those people be an ancestor? I was also surprised by how politicized medicine was even then! Some things don't change. The story had many themes: trust, generational friendships, different ways to fight causes, rights of children, using children or poor individuals as "guinea pigs" etc, etc. What would you do if you were asked to volunteer your child for a questionable medical treatment?
---Myrna
