September Book Group...

09/09/2010 6:30 pm
09/09/2010 7:45 pm

is reading: CUTTING FOR STONE by Abraham Verghese

Join the discussion! The Front Street Book Shop's book club meets at 6:30 PM on the second Thursday of each month.

No reservation necessary--read the book and show up at discussion. October's book will be non-fiction & chosen by majority vote at the close of September's meeting. Choices are in-print, paperback & alternate between fiction and non-fiction.

Cutting for Stone (Paperback)

$15.95
ISBN-13: 9780375714368
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Vintage, 1/2010
The story is a riveting saga of twin brothers, Marion and Shiva Stone, born of a tragic 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, and 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.But it's love, not politics -- their passion for the same woman -- that will tear them apart and force Marion to flee his homeland and make his way to America, finding refuge in his work at an underfunded, overcrowded New York City hospital. When the past catches up to him, wreaking havoc and destruction, Marion has to entrust his life to the two men he has trusted least in the world: the surgeon father who abandoned him and the brother who betrayed him.

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Front Street Book Shop
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165 Front St
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Scituate
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Province:
Massachusetts
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