Tears of Salt: A Doctor's Story

In this inspiring account of his life and work, Bartolo shares his quiet dignity, unshakable moral center, and inspirational message“We can’t and we won’t be governed by our fears.” The book is filled with Bartolo’s unforgettable tales of pain and hope, moving stories of those who didn’t make it and those who did. Tears of Salt is both a lasting work of literature and an intimate portrait and fresh perspective on a signal crisis of our time.. Pietro Bartolo has run the lone medical clinic on th

. He was featured in the Academy Award–nominated documentary film Fire at Sea.Lidia Tilotta is a journalist with RAI Regional News and Mediterraneo. Pietro Bartolo was born in Lampedusa to a family of fishermen. He returned to Lampedusa after getting his medical degree, and has been running the island’s lone clinic since 1991

Bartolo is at once the savior and the coroner to boatload after boatload of migrants who risk everything to cross the deadly seas. Bartolo to show us what courage, integrity, and compassion look like. Tears of Salt is a tender personal memoir of a fisherman’s son turned doctor on the rocky island of Lampedusa, where Dr. This is a personal, urgent, and universal book.” - Gloria Steinem. Bartolo tells us about rescuing everyone he can, burying those he cannot, and saving their stories as if they were his own. “An urgent,