Why did I love this book?
This is a sweeping multi-generational family saga with incredible characters, gorgeous writing, unexpected plot twists, and an intriguing medical mystery.
The author is a physician, and as a retired nurse, I really appreciated the inclusion of strong nurse characters. He knows that experienced nurses guide young physicians every day.
I loved learning about the setting in southern India during the period from 1900 to the 1970s, as the narrative wove back and forth between the different plot lines. I was intrigued trying to figure out how it would all come together in the end, as I knew it would. Yet I was stunned by the ending.
When I finished it (all 700 pages), I felt bereft, missing the characters so much that I started at the beginning and read it all over again.
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From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret
“One of the best books I’ve read in my entire life. It’s epic. It’s transportive . . . It was unputdownable!”—Oprah Winfrey, OprahDaily.com
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