Indeed, the literary feats in The Covenant of Water deserve to be lauded as much ... that we are driven to finish the novel's 700-some pages even while grieving and raging over all the tragic ...

It comes right up in your hand.” “The Covenant of Water” was inspired by a 157-page illustrated document Verghese’s mother, Mariam Verghese, created for her 5-year-old granddaughter and ...

Professions come to define many of the characters in The Covenant of Water: there are doctors, writers, domestic workers, and other laborers within these pages. How do the attributes of these ...

“The Covenant of Water” follows three generations of a ... hardly realize you are plowing through decade upon decade and page upon page. The book begins in 1900, as a 12-year-old girl in ...