Cutting for StoneInternational Bestseller A sweeping, emotionally riveting first novel — an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home. Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon at a mission hospital in Addis Ababa. Orphaned by their mother’s death in childbirth and their father’s disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Yet it will be love, not politics — their passion for the same woman — that will tear them apart and force Marion, fresh out of medical school, to flee his homeland. He makes his way to America, finding refuge in his work as an intern at an underfunded, overcrowded New York City hospital. When the past catches up to him — nearly destroying him — Marion must entrust his life to the two men he thought he trusted least in the world: the surgeon father who abandoned him and the brother who betrayed him. An unforgettable journey into one man’s remarkable life, and an epic story about the power, intimacy, and curious beauty of the work of healing others. |
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Contents
PROLOGUEThe Coming | |
PART ONE | |
CHAPTER 1The Typhoid State Revisited | |
CHAPTER 2The Missing Finger | |
CHAPTER 3The Gate of Tears | |
CHAPTER 4The FiveF Rule | |
CHAPTER 5Last Moments | |
CHAPTER 6My Abyssinia | |
CHAPTER 28The Good Doctor | |
CHAPTER 29Abu Kassems Slippers | |
CHAPTER 30Word for Words | |
CHAPTER 31The Dominion of the Flesh | |
CHAPTER 32A Time to Sow | |
CHAPTER 33A Form of Madness | |
CHAPTER 34A Time to Reap | |
CHAPTER 35One Fever from Another | |
CHAPTER 7Fetor Terribilis | |
CHAPTER 8Missing People | |
CHAPTER 9Where Duty Lies | |
CHAPTER 10Dance of Shiva | |
PART TWO | |
CHAPTER 11Bedside Language and Bedroom Language | |
CHAPTER 12Lands End | |
CHAPTER 13Praise in the Arms of Jesus | |
CHAPTER 14Knowledge of the Redeemer | |
CHAPTER 15Crookedness of the Serpent | |
CHAPTER 16Bride for a Year | |
PART THREE | |
CHAPTER 17Tizita | |
CHAPTER 18Sins of the Father | |
CHAPTER 19Giving Dogs Their Due | |
CHAPTER 20Blind Mans Buff | |
CHAPTER 21Knowing What You Will Hear | |
CHAPTER 22The School of Suffering | |
CHAPTER 23The Afterbird and Other Animals | |
CHAPTER 24Loving the Dying | |
CHAPTER 25Anger as a Form of Love | |
CHAPTER 26The Face of Suffering | |
CHAPTER 27Answering Medicine | |
CHAPTER 36Prognostic Signs | |
CHAPTER 37Exodus | |
PART FOUR | |
CHAPTER 38Welcome Wagon | |
CHAPTER 39The Cure for What Ails Thee | |
CHAPTER 40Salt and Pepper | |
CHAPTER 41One Knot at a Time | |
CHAPTER 42Bloodlines | |
CHAPTER 43Grand Rounds | |
CHAPTER 44Begin at the Beginning | |
CHAPTER 45A Matter of Time | |
CHAPTER 46Room with a View | |
CHAPTER 47Missing Letters | |
CHAPTER 48Five Fingers | |
CHAPTER 49Queens Move | |
CHAPTER 50Slit the Thew | |
CHAPTER 51The Devils Choice | |
CHAPTER 52A Pair of Unpaired Organs | |
CHAPTER 53She Is Coming | |
CHAPTER 54Homefires | |
CHAPTER 55The Afterbird | |
Acknowledgments | |
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Common terms and phrases
Addis Ababa Almaz Amharic Anjali arms asked Asmara baby belly better blood breath brother Calangute called cheeks chest child couldn’t Deepak doctor door Emperor Eritrean Ethiopia Ethiopian Airlines eyes face father feel felt fingers gaze Gebrew Genet Ghosh Haile Selassie hair hand happened he’d head heard heart Hema Hema and Ghosh Hema’s Hemlatha hospital injera khat knew leave lips liver looked man’s Marion Mary Joseph Praise Matron Mebratu Merkato Missing Missing’s morning mother never night nurse once Operating Theater patient Popsy Praise’s probationer pulled pushed Rosina scent she’d Shiva shoulder side silence Sister Mary Joseph skin sleep smiled sound stay stood stopped surgeon surgery taxi tell thing Thomas Stone thought told took Tsige tube turned twins voice waited walked wall wasn’t who’d woman words Zemui