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Doctor, educator and non-fiction writer Abraham Verghese can now add best-selling novelist to his long list of accomplishments. Cutting for Stone gets its name from a line in the Hippocratic Oath. Set in Ethiopia and then in the United States it tells the story of identical twins in search of their father.

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