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This from Cutting For Stone, a novel by Abraham Verghese that I liked very much. It sags quite a bit in the second half and I don’t totally understand the choices the author made about which moments to expand and which to collapse or leave off-stage.

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But I found the characters in the first half so well and tightly drawn, and the story line was propulsive enough to carry me through the duller parts.  I also really admired the way that he wove the story of Ethiopia into the fabric of the narrative. Not overwrought or thick with exposition, but also not at all secondary. The turmoil, politics and even geopolitics play decisive roles in key plot turns, but the book never stops being about the individual characters and their complicated entwinements.

The excerpt below got me thinking about the American health care system, and the yawning gap between the most elite medical centers and the most marginalized ones. For all our endless discourse ab Notebook - Jeneen Interlandi FUXA