Why did I love this book?
A great novel is a welcome respite from my work on crisis leadership. In this book, Verghese swept me away to a world I didn’t know and soon didn’t want to leave.
The characters became like family, and the setting of southwest India was perhaps the most compelling character of all. I was completely caught up in their lives and struggles that span several generations.
The mix of medicine and mysticism engaged different parts of my brain at different times, keeping me eager for more. It is a lengthy book—and I could have read twice as much more.
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OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • SUBJECT OF A SIX-PART SUPER SOUL PODCAST SERIES HOSTED BY OPRAH WINFREY
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret
“One of the best books I’ve read in my entire life. It’s epic. It’s transportive . . . It was unputdownable!”—Oprah Winfrey, OprahDaily.com
The Covenant of Water is the long-awaited new novel by Abraham Verghese, the author of…