"'We buried one of dad's lungs,' announces the narrator of The Tenderness of Stones. The lung is so large it takes three men to carry it--and that is just the beginning. The family looks on as under the dispassionate orders of anonymous white-clad strangers their father is disassembled, piece by piece: his nose is removed from his face and tied, temporarily, to his neck; his other lung is pulled out and he is forced to lug it around in a cart; his mouth is pried off and stored away, leaving him mute. Beneath it all is one devastating truth: soon, he will be gone entirely"-- Provided by publisher.
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