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conversations.value: What is a plot for a book about Marion, Stone, Genet entitled Cutting for Stone?
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conversations.value: Cutting for Stone: The story is told by the protagonist, Marion Stone.\nHe and his conjoined twin Shiva are born at Mission Hospital (called "Missing" in accordance with the local pronunciation), Addis Ababa, in September 1954.\nTheir mother, Sister Mary Joseph Praise, an Indian Carmelite nun, dies during childbirth.\nTheir father, Thomas Stone, the English surgeon of Missing, abandons them and disappears.\nOrphaned at birth, the pair grow up in the household of two physicians of Missing, both from Madras, the obstetrician Kalpana Hemlatha (Hema) and Abhi Ghosh, who fall in love while caring for the infants.\nHema names them Marion (after Marion Sims) and Shiva (after the Hindu deity).\nGhosh teaches himself surgery to replace Stone.\nThe tissue link between the twins has been separated at birth and the two grow up together being very close initially.\nBoth are exposed to the changing political environment in Ethiopia.\nThere is an unsuccessful rebellion by Haile Selassie\'s bodyguard, General Mebratu.\nGhosh is imprisoned, then released, in the aftermath of the coup, due to his friendship with Mebratu.\nThrough their parents, both boys are exposed to medicine and taught at the hospital.\nOver time, though, individual differences begin to become pronounced.\nWhen entering puberty their relationship to Genet, the daughter of Rosina, a domestic help, finally tears them apart.\nMarion is in love with Genet and intends to marry her, but it is Shiva who, interested in sexual pursuits, deflowers her.\nMarion feels betrayed.\nRosina forces Genet to submit to female genital mutilation and commits suicide shortly thereafter.\nGenet will later join the Eritrean liberation movement.\nWhile Marion goes to medical school, his brother stays at Missing.\nFocused on the repair of birth-related fistulas, he takes up his surgical training with Hema eschewing a formal medical education.\nOn his death bed, Ghosh has three wishes for Marion - to get the best medical education, to find Stone, and to forgive his brother.\nWhen Genet and her comrades hijack an Ethiopian Airlines airplane in 1979, Marion is on a list of her connections.\nTo avoid arrest he flees the country overnight to Kenya.\nHe goes to New York City where he finds a position at Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, a hospital in the Bronx.\nThere, he enters a surgical residency.\nOne day, assisting his senior in a complicated trauma operation, an unknown surgeon enters looking them over the shoulder.\nIt is Thomas Stone, by now a well-renowned liver surgeon from Boston.\nMarion\'s encounter with his biological father redirects his life leading to a painful reconciliation and reunion with his estranged brother.