![]() ![]() Ghosh and Hema marry and make a happy family of four. Ghosh (another Indian) diagnoses his apnea again, a medical emergency throws two characters together. Hemalatha, the Indian gynecologist), who becomes their surrogate mother and names them Shiva and Marion. ![]() The emotionally repressed Stone never declared his love for her had they really done the deed? After the delivery, Stone rejects the babies and leaves Ethiopia. She then served as his assistant for seven years. The Indian nun, Sister Mary Joseph Praise, was a trained nurse who had met the British surgeon Thomas Stone on a sea voyage ministering to passengers dying of typhus. We are in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in 1954. The late-arriving OB-GYN takes charge, losing the mother but saving her babies, identical twins. The surgeon (is he also the father?) dithers. The nun is struggling to give birth in the hospital. There’s a mystery, a coming-of-age, abundant melodrama and even more abundant medical lore in this idiosyncratic first novel from a doctor best known for the memoir My Own Country (1994). ![]()
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