Started 'Cutting for Stone'

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese





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I have been on the hold list for this book since March, so I am anxious to read this one. The author lives in my neck of the woods, the Bay Area; Palo Alto, specifically. EW gave it an A grade; here is that review.

Opening line: "After eight months spent in the obscurity of our mother's womb, my brother, Shiva, and I came into the world in the late afternoon of the twentieth of September in the year of grace 1954."