Set throughout most of the first century of the 1900’s, The Covenant Of Water follows 3 India generations of a family that at least one person dies from drowning each generation.
As we follow these families, alongside them we share their joys and their sorrows, their dreams and their fears.
The Covenant of Water is beautifully written and filled with great topics for discussion with a group. This is one of those books that will only give you more by talking about it with others who have read it.
As a book club read it a bit big for me to finish around my work schedule and other commitments and admittedly I was not finished with it by the time we discussed it. I did go on to finish it in the days to follow.
While enjoyable, it was heavy… a lot of things to keep track of/ character heavy and some words (while beautiful) were unknown to me and pulled a bit from the experience. Overall, I feel it could have been about 200 pages shorter and not take anything away from the story or feeling you get when you read a Verghese book. I did enjoy Cutting For Stone much more than this one.
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