Abraham Verghese Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/abraham-verghese/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Mon, 01 May 2023 20:21:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg Abraham Verghese Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/abraham-verghese/ 32 32 38398750 The Covenant of Water https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/05/the-covenant-of-water/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/05/the-covenant-of-water/#comments Mon, 01 May 2023 07:10:09 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17514 Abraham Verghese is back with a new novel 14 years after his critically acclaimed bestseller, Cutting for Stone. The Covenant of Water is a saga spanning 70 years about one family with an unusual history—in every generation there is a family member with an aversion to water who ends up drowning. Verghese uses this mysterious […]

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