New Lebanon Book Group

The New Lebanon Book Group has selected Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese for discussion at its meetings on Sunday, May 23, at 11 am at The Hitchcock House, Route #22, New Lebanon, and on Thursday, June 10, at 7 pm at The New Lebanon Library, 550 Route #20, New Lebanon.
An unforgettable journey into one man’s remarkable life, Cutting for Stone is an epic story about the power, intimacy and curious beauty of the work of healing others. Twin brothers born of a secret union between an Indian nun and a British surgeon at a mission hospital in Addis Ababa, twin brothers come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Yet love, not politics, tears the brothers apart and forces Marion, fresh out of medical school, to flee his homeland and eventually entrust his life to the two men he thought he trusted least in the world – his surgeon father who abandoned him and his twin brother who betrayed him.
Author Abraham Verghese is the author of three best selling books, the prize winning Cutting for Stone, My Own Country and The Tennis Partner. He is a tenured professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine.