Abraham Verghese on THE COVENANT OF WATER

"I loved that sense of the slow evolution of a community and watching it happen under your eyes."

Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone, returns with a long-awaited novel — The Covenant of Water, an inter-generational tale through the lives of a family in Southern India. Verghese joins us to talk about the long gap between his works, his career as a doctor, themes of finding home and more with Poured Over host, Miwa Messer. We end this episode with TBR Topoff book recommendations from Marc and Madyson.

This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Executive Producer Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang.

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Featured Books (Episode):

The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

My Own Country by Abraham Verghese

The Tennis Partner by Abraham Verghese

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

Featured Books (TBR):

The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See