About 40% done.
Granddaughter working to inoculate children in an orphanage following Yugoslavia's break up. As she does so, a family is up in the hillside trying to dig up the body of a relative and rebury him properly in order to free the family from a curse. Children, ill with fever, are out digging for the body--buried nine years earlier. Dawn, digging, our main character appearing like a ghost in her white medical coat. Superb contrast of science/superstition. Memorable scene--third one! Also, more reminiscences about her grandfather, contrasting his life (professional and personal) with hers. Like the book a lot.
(Grandfather does emergency appendectomy on Marshall Tito.)
Granddaughter working to inoculate children in an orphanage following Yugoslavia's break up. As she does so, a family is up in the hillside trying to dig up the body of a relative and rebury him properly in order to free the family from a curse. Children, ill with fever, are out digging for the body--buried nine years earlier. Dawn, digging, our main character appearing like a ghost in her white medical coat. Superb contrast of science/superstition. Memorable scene--third one! Also, more reminiscences about her grandfather, contrasting his life (professional and personal) with hers. Like the book a lot.
(Grandfather does emergency appendectomy on Marshall Tito.)
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