Very few people take the time to delve into the plight of those less fortunate, but Carol D. Marsh’s “Nowhere Else I Want to Be” takes us into the lives of the women of Miriam's House—homeless, black and living with AIDS—and gives them a much needed voice in a sometimes cruel and harsh world. Marsh also reveals with unflinching honesty her own struggles as a white, middle-class woman living and working in a culture unfamiliar and sometimes even distressing to her. “Nowhere Else I Want to Be” is required reading for anyone who wants to know about a side of Washington, D.C. rarely seen by tourists or even natives, and a textbook example of the power of the written word crafted by a wonderful writer and even better person.