Pick up a copy of Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese at the library and join us on Wednesday March 19th at 1pm by the fireplace for a discussion of this great read!
An epic novel that spans continents and generations, Cutting for Stone
is an unforgettable story of love and betrayal, compassion and
redemption, exile and home that unfolds across five decades in India,
Ethiopia, and America...In Cutting for Stone,
renowned physician Abraham Verghese has given us a remarkable reading
experience that explores the lives of a memorable cast of characters,
many of them doctors; the insight the novel offers into the world of
medicine, along with its wealth of precise detail about how doctors
work, is unparalleled in American fiction. Verghese is so attuned to the
movements of the heart and of the mind, so adept at dramatizing the
great themes of human existence, and he has filled this world with such
richly drawn, fascinating characters, that Cutting for Stone
becomes one of those rare books one wishes would never end, an
alternate reality that both rivals and illuminates the real world
readers must return to when the book is closed. -- Readinggroupguides.com
