'One Day .' is beautifully written. It treats its often delicate subject matter - and vulnerable yet resilient and complex subjects - with graceful care, while at the same time refusing to avoid the uncomfortable and painful challenges that such realities present. Amanda J. Hammar, MSO Professor in African Studies, University of Copenhagen.Ross Parsons has been working with HIV-positive children in Mutare since 2005. As a child psychotherapist, he was interested in exploring how a therapeutic group, meeting regularly, might offer a way of elaborating and meeting their needs. His account of these experiences is presented as a rare blend of anthropological and psychotherapeutic approaches to the study of children, and he is candid about the close, even intimate, relationships that resulted: 'I have crossed the classical ethnographic and psychoanalytic boundary of the cool observer.

The therapist, while still awkwardly present, has also become an advocate in pursuit of the ethnographic.'.