I am a voracious reader. Nothing destroys stress and emotional pain in me more than a good book. . . and there have been hundreds of them throughout my life.
Enter Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese. Wow! I was not prepared to be totally gripped by this story. It is not a book I would normally be attracted to. But I have a habit of seeing someone with a book and asking them what they are reading. This man's face lit up as he began telling me about this book. Either he was a good actor or he had led me to something I should look into!
It is the story of a beautiful nun from India who falls in love with a British doctor and their union produces twin boys. She dies bringing them into the world and the father disappears for the next 30 years. There are so many plots and characters to this story. The reader is taken from Ethiopia to New York and back to Ethiopia again.
Verghese is a phenomenal storyteller and you will be grabbed from the beginning pages.
Those who know me will tell you I rarely rave to others about a book I have read. This one is an exception. It is an unforgettable story of love and betrayal, medicine and ordinary miracles, and two brothers whose fates are forever intertwined. A definite page turner!
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