Physician and author Dr. Abraham Verghese, professor of internal medicine at Stanford University, will read from his debut novel Cutting for Stone at 7* p.m. tonight in the Searle Conference Center in the Seeley G. Mudd Building at Duke.
The public event is free. A reception and book signing will follow.
A sweeping, emotionally riveting first novel, Cutting for Stone is an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home.
Verghese is the author of My Own Country, a National Book Critics Circle finalist, The Tennis Partner, a New York Times Notable Book and numerous articles in publications including The New Yorker, Atlantic, The New York Times, Granta and The Wall Street Journal.
In Monday's INSIDE Duke Medicine, Anton Zuiker of Duke Medicine Office of News and Communications, talks about how Verghese' writing inspired him.
"My Own Country, was about an immigrant doctor's experiences treating the newly named AIDS disease in rural Tennessee," Zuiker writes. "I bought a copy and read this gripping and compassionate story during my lunch breaks and on the bus to and from my apartment. By the time I was to the last page, I'd been inspired to find a way to shift my budding journalism career to a life of writing about health care." (To read the full entry, click here.)
Free parking is available in the underground Bryan Research Center Garage next to the Searle Center/Seeley Mudd Building.
* The story originally had the time of the talk as 9 p.m.