It went very well with my ice-cold Corona and the casita in Mexico.Ultimately enjoyable without being lowbrow, not stretching the mind too much. It’s a 600+ page BookSnob type of beach read. This is the opposite: “Yeah, they turned it into a book.” So often in life we are used to saying, oh they made this movie out of blah blah blah book. It could be a drama of the highest order on the big screen–there is death and love and betrayal and loyalty and reunion and forgiveness and redemption and peace. If no one in Hollywood has bought the rights to this–believe me, it is coming. This was fascinating.īut if I enjoyed Cutting for Stone, I am also obliged to put a ringed-fence around my appreciation for it. I loved learning more and found myself looking on Wikipedia and other (albeit lightweight) resources to understand the historical narrative. Second, his storytelling about a cosmopolitan city that undergoes upheaval in the context of its revolution was instructive about part of the world that I have had very little exposure to. Verghese is a professor at the Med School at Stanford (underachiever!), so there must be some autobiographical nature to it. What was easy to like was the easy, accessibility of the medical jargon and hospital life that Abraham Verghese depicts-the boys live on a hospital campus in Addis and are raised by two doctors. The book leads up to a dramatic ending (which I can’t give up here) which challenges their need to be physically united again. Though separated physically at birth, they are metaphysically inseparable through their life experiences. It is told through the eyes of Marion, who reports how he and Shiva boys struggle through issues of independence, sexuality, career aspirations and their reliance on each other. What transpires is a sweeping novel of their life–growing up in the context of Ethiopia’s revolution. He leaves Ethiopia and disappears from the young boys’ life. Sister Mary doesn’t make it through the birth and their father, the very surgeon who Sister Mary stood by the side of for years as his assistant, is angered, incensed and heart-broken. (The Sister part hopefully clues you in on the surprise of this all).
A shocking birth, unexpected, to a mother named Sister Mary Joseph Praise. It’s a story of two brothers born as conjoined twins in Addis Ababa in 1954.
I felt a type of obligation, like, what is this all about?Īnd, I expected to pan it. So, for nearly a year, it’s been taunting me. 44 weeks, in fact, according to today’s New York Times. Now there’s a clincher.īut it has lingered on the bestseller list for weeks. Oh, and Entertainment Weekly gave it an “A”. I had low expectations for Cutting for Stone. When the pull quote on the cover is from USA Today, well, it’s not a big selling point.
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