Abraham Verghese

~ The Covenant of Water, by Abraham Verghese ~ Grove Press, 2023. Having read Verghese’s other novels (Cutting for Stone, The Tennis Partner, and My Own Country), I was fairly confident I would enjoy his latest, The Covenant of Water....

500 or so pages into The Covenant of Water, matriarch Big Ammachi has a conversation with her god, grateful for her blessings, certainly not complaining “But, there’s always something, Lord, isn’t there? Every year there’s a new worry…now and then,...