HER EXPERIENCES BECOME A BOOK

Last year, South African-born Nesta Rovina published her book about her years as an occupational therapist in California. Tree Barking: A Memoir is about her work as a home care therapist, and deals with the patients she treated. Nesta was born and raised in Johannesburg. She graduated from Rhodes University and spent 11 years in Israel where she lived on Kibbutz Ein Dor and received a degree in occupational therapy in Jerusalem. At the age of 26 her South African husband was killed in the Yom Kippur War. She moved to the USA in 1992 and completed her master’s degree at John F. Kennedy University. She lives in the San Francisco Bay area. Her book is about patients, many in low-income and often dangerous neighborhoods. Many of them had debilitating illnesses or were drug addicts or geriatric patients without caregivers to help them with their day-to-day needs. Her job was to help make their homes livable despite their physical limitations and reduce the risk of injuries at home.