Why did I love this book?
I loved following these characters from an improbable birth in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to the world of medicine in New York and back.
I learned about a time and place that never appeared in my history texts and about how that history and landscape impacted and illuminated the main character. I was riveted through all 667 pages.
11 authors picked Cutting for Stone as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
My brother, Shiva, and I came into the world in the late afternoon of the twentieth of September in the year of grace 1954. We took our first breaths in the thick air of Addis Ababa, capital city of Ethiopia. Bound by birth, we were driven apart by bitter betrayal. No surgeon can heal the would that divides two brothers. Where silk and steel fail, story must succeed. To begin at the beginning...