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A friend described this book as "life changing." I cannot say the book touched me in that way, but I did find it enlightening. The main story line is the life of one twin boy from birth to middle age. The twins are born to an Indian nun working a a mission hospital in Ethiopia in the late 1950s. The nun dies in childbirth and the twins are raised by two doctors at the hospital. The bulk of the story is told by Marion, one of the twins, and is his journey from childhood in Ethiopia at a mission hospital, to medical training in America, and finally back to Ethiopia. Verghese is an amazing storyteller who weaves medical details into the story in a way that is interesting and easily followed. His attention to culture, politics, and religion adds to the story’s completeness. This is the first fictional work by Verghese but I hope it will not be his last. My only criticism is the event that triggers Marion’s return to Ethiopia. I will not spoil the story, but in my humble opinion, that part of the story could have ended differently.

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