The Art of the Craft, From The Covenant of Water

This Arts and Medicine feature excerpts a chapter from The Covenant of Water, the new novel from Abraham Verghese, which follows the lives of a family in South India over the 20th century who have a condition that consigns at least 1 member per generation to death by drowning.

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"The Covenant of Water" is a new novel by Abraham Verghese that tells the story of a family in South India over the 20th century. In this family, at least one member per generation is destined to die by drowning.