He lands an internship in a New York City hospital where fate brings him in contact with his long-missing biological father.Ĭutting for Stone is an intensely emotional book written by a man whose reverence for the medical profession and respect for the dedication necessary to master the work shines through.
One particular act of terrorism forces Marion to flee the country. Through several waves of political upheaval and the more volcanic instability of adolescence, the three children grow strong and mostly happy-which make later acts of betrayal all the more difficult to fathom. Bound in an annually renewable marriage, they do their best to raise the twins as well as Genet, the illegitimate daughter of one of their servants. Born in 1954 to an Indian Carmelite nun and a promising British surgeon in an Ethiopian hospital, Marion Stone narrates the story of his life and the life of his twin brother, Shiva, in this heartfelt chronicle of a cobbled family of unusual, and unusually talented, doctors.Īfter their mother’s death in childbirth and their father’s swift abandonment, Marion-or “ShivaMarion,” as he likes to call himself and his brother-comes under the guardianship of the two remaining physicians in the shoestring hospital: A barren Indian obstetrician and the kindhearted internist who adores her.