Cutting for Stone Characters

So, yeah, Marion and Shiva are two separate people—but at the same time, they're kind of not. The boys are born joined at the head and end their lives joined at the liver; in the meantime, they o...

For most of the novel, there isn't much good to say about Dr. Thomas Stone, other than that he's a dang fine surgeon. But things do get a little more complicated than that, and here's what you need...

Hema is Missing Hospital's only obstetrician/gynecologist, and she's also the adoptive mother of Shiva and Marion. She delivers them to the world and tries to save their mother, but when she fails...

If Dr. Stone is a deadbeat dad, Dr. Ghosh is the exact opposite. He starts off the novel mooning over Hema, whom he's loved for years but who won't return his affection, and he ends up as her husba...

Though she only appears in the first part of the book and is basically unconscious throughout, Sister Mary Joseph Praise is one of the most important characters in Cutting for Stone. She is the mot...

Genet is an Eritrean girl, the daughter of the maid Rosina. She grows up with Shiva and Marion: they are the children of educated immigrants, while she's the child of a colonized people. Shiva and...

We'll break down the colorful cast of characters that inhabit Missing Hospital in this section, because it's really as a collective that they make sense.First up, Matron Hirst. She's the tough rule...

Once Marion leaves Ethiopia for America, he has to make a whole new batch of friends. They're just as eclectic as the folks he leaves at Missing, but in their own way. Elihu Harris is a Texas Bapti...