From the Back Cover

One day Binti Phiri is the child star of a popular Malawi radio program. Now she is nothing but a common AIDS orphan. Since their mother and father’s death from AIDS, Binti, her sister and brother are split up and sent to the homes of relatives who can barely tolerate their presence. Treated like the lowest servant, Binti no longer feels special. But even as she clings to the memory of her former life, Binti Phiri must face the greatest challenge. If she and her brother and sister are ever to be together again, Binti will have to look outside herself and find a new way to be special.

Book Description

The Heaven Shop is a deeply moving and compelling look into the life of an AIDS orphan. Deborah Ellis helps the reader instantly identify with young Binti, along a painful and eye-opening journey from young radio starlet, to poor AIDS orphan. Great for young and old alike this is a unique and rare glimpse into life surrounded and changed by AIDS.