Join the HCSF Reading Group to discuss Cutting For Stone By Abraham Verghese
In-Person Meeting
Sunday, February 16, 2025
4:30-6:00 pm PST
Dolores Heights, San Francisco
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Cutting For Stone
Abraham Verghese
667 pages
2010
The twins Marion and Shiva Stone were once conjoined, so the effects of a major surgery are present in their very bones. As the brothers grow into adulthood and their own careers as surgeons, Verghese closely examines the bodies they cut open. That level of detail is perhaps not for the squeamish. However, it’s used to clue us in to the relationship between a surgeon’s precision and a body’s mess, and also references political upheaval and regime change in Ethiopia, where the brothers grow up, over decades. Verghese tries to do it all in his initial work of fiction (he wrote two fine memoirs first): He dips into history, tragedy, comedy, drama, reference, and documentary. If he sometimes misses the mark, it’s hard to fault him, especially because the story is tied together by a romance made as neatly as the finest sutures. (The Atlantic)
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Kirsten Miclau
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