Recent Reading
I finished this book recently and quickly because I had read a later book by the same author a few weeks ago. As the excerpt from the USA Today review says: “A richly textured portrait of a small Southern town . . . . Immensely moving. In describing his own odyssey as a healer, Verghese displays rare candor and eloquence.”
As I mentioned in the review of the later book,—?sequel or ?prequel—there seem to be a lot of Indian expatriates writing in English these days and putting out a lot of good stories. This one is non-fiction with just enough gory detail to be persuasive. He says he is writing about his own journey but the journeys of his (more…)