{"product_id":"the-covenant-of-water-oprahs-book-club-1","title":"The Covenant of Water","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK - INSTANT \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER - SUBJECT OF A SIX-PART SUPER SOUL PODCAST SERIES HOSTED BY OPRAH WINFREY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e-bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eCutting for Stone\u003c\/em\u003e comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"One of the best books I've read in my entire life. It's epic. It's transportive . . . It was unputdownable!\"-Oprah Winfrey, OprahDaily.com\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Covenant of Water\u003c\/em\u003e is the long-awaited new novel by Abraham Verghese, the author of the major word-of-mouth bestseller \u003cem\u003eCutting for Stone\u003c\/em\u003e, which has sold over 1.5 million copies in the United States alone and remained on the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/em\u003ebestseller list for over two years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpanning the years 1900 to 1977, \u003cem\u003eThe Covenant of Water\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA shimmering evocation of a bygone India and of the passage of time itself, \u003cem\u003eThe Covenant of Water\u003c\/em\u003e is a hymn to progress in medicine and to human understanding, and a humbling testament to the difficulties undergone by past generations for the sake of those alive today. It is one of the most masterful literary novels published in recent years.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Grove Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51661212778786,"sku":"9780802162175","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/8637\/3154\/files\/imageloader_cb8d76a0-393d-4723-9358-5adeca683a2d.jpg?v=1779451827","url":"https:\/\/godmothers.com\/products\/the-covenant-of-water-oprahs-book-club-1","provider":"Godmothers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}