Cutting for Stone

Identical twins Marion and Shiva Stone enter the world with their mother dying at childbirth and their father abandoning them. Born of a secret union between a British surgeon and an Indian nun serving at Missing, a mission hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the twins grow up with the nurturing family of Missing, where they develop an extraordinary gift for medicine. The twins’ close bond eventually shatters, and Missing, insulated from political unrest on the outside, finds it seeping through the gates. An intimate feel for Addis Ababa is portrayed through the lives and happenings at Missing, a place where the raw drama of life and medicine are played out. This magnificent saga takes the reader from Ethiopia with all its beauty and unrest to an inner-city hospital in New York City, revealing a journey of love and the passionate power of healing others.