Today's Featured Book
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
Genre: Fiction
Published: May 2, 2023
Page Count: 736 pages
Summary:
Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on South India’s Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning—and in Kerala, water is everywhere. At the turn of the century, a twelve-year-old girl from Kerala’s long-existing Christian community, grieving the death of her father, is sent by boat to her wedding, where she will meet her forty-year-old husband for the first time. From this unforgettable new beginning, the young girl—and future matriarch, known as Big Ammachi—will witness unthinkable changes over the span of her extraordinary life, full of joy and triumph as well as hardship and loss, her faith and love the only constants.
"She is twelve years old, and she will be married in the morning."
"She's sixteen. She has some notion of what's supposed to take place, even if that knowledge is inadvertent and from observing God's other creatures in nature...but she's unprepared. How exactly does it happen?"
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June 16th - 22nd - When you write your reviews, which do you discuss more - the plot or the characters? (submitted by Elizabeth @ Silver's Reviews)
Easy answer: the characters. I could care less if a story has a plot---I'm only interested in the characters.
How about you? What do you think?
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