#27-Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

No - there is nothing wrong with your eyesight - I actually finished "Cutting for Stone"!  I don't know what it is with this book but it was a true labor to get to the last page.

Here's the thing, some parts of the story are really interesting, the characters are really interesting but there is SOOO much detail that a lot of times those things get buried.  Just when I am ready for some plot development, Verghese pops into a flashback that tells every detail of the character's life that might possibly be relevant to the present moment.  I just felt like the momentum was stunted all the way through.

On the positive side, it really is beautifully written with an underlying current that shows the meaning of family both biologically linked and by choice.  It dives into how forgiveness can take a lifetime and may not come at all.

The biggest disappointment, and the reason that I finally landed on the 3 star rating rather than a 4 was the way the love interest was developed and then disposed of in a pretty unceremonious manner.  I wanted more than a one paragraph resolution to that story.  So - we are done with that - bottleneck broken.

Goodreads rating: 3 stars
In Progress: (nonfiction) Holy Sh!t, A brief history of swearing by Melissa Mohr
                    (fiction): Weight by Jeanette Winterson