Crack open a copy of the bestselling book—and soon-to-be movie—"The Covenant of Water," and you'll find illustrations from the author's brother, Alamedan Tom Varghese. C.J. Hirschfield talks with Tom about the book, growing up in Kerala, and how he discovered he wanted to be an artist.

https://alamedapost.com/features/arts/alameda-artist-tom-varghese-in-national-spotlight/

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#AbrahamVerghese's latest book, The Covenant of Water, is a sweeping epic about a Christian family in Kerala spanning eight decades. He speaks to Stanley Carvalho about it, excerpts here:
#thmagazine

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Abraham Verghese’s new novel, The Covenant of Water is to be released on Tuesday, May 2. I don’t usually buy books anymore but I bought this one! Big Ammachi is the matriarch of a family that has a covenant with water. Every generation, one member of the family drowns. “Memories are woven from gossamer threads; time eats holes in the fabric, and these she must darn with myth and fable," he has Big Ammachi say when asked by her granddaughter to tell the family story.” Taken From a review in the St. Louis Post Register posted on Facebook, this sentence seems to bundle all our lives into the memory and myths we carry. It made me shiver. #books #AbrahamVerghese #CovenantofWater #Read

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/columns-and-blogs/openbook/article/91347-abraham-verghese-s-epic-new-family-history.html
Abraham Verghese’s epic new family history, The Covenant of Water will be released later this year. #AbrahamVerghese #CovenentofWater #books

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/columns-and-blogs/openbook/article/91347-abraham-verghese-s-epic-new-family-history.html

The Covenant of Water will be released later this year. #AbrahamVerghese #CovenentofWater #books

finished #abrahamverghese's latest masterpiece, Covenant of Water. He knocks it out of the park again with this epic about family, secrets and the ways we are all bound together by love. Unforgettable characters-Big Ammachi, Mariamma, Digby, Philippose, and brilliant, doomed Elsie- bring Verghese's story to glorious, heartbreaking life. #bookstodon @bookstodon #books

Here are ten more

The Sympathizer - #VietThanhNguyen
The Peripheral - #WilliamGibson
Deacon King Kong - #JamesMcBride
Saga - #FionaStaples & #BrianKVaughan
The Ministry of the Future - #KimStanleyRobinson
The Book of Dust - #PhilipPullman
Cutting For Stone - #AbrahamVerghese
The Lexicon of Musical Invective - #NicolasSlonimsky
Pachinko - #MinJinLee
The Orphan Master’s Son - #AdamJohnson
Black Swan Green - #DavidMitchell

Seven books to get to know me, fiction edition (inspired by @alicemcalicepants and @bjornlarssen )
-A Home at the End of the World, #MichaelCunningham
-Jane and Prudence, #BarbaraPym
-Harriet the Spy, #LouiseFitzhugh
-The Patron Saint of Liars, #AnnPatchett
-Stardust, #NeilGaiman
-Cutting for Stone, #AbrahamVerghese
-Eleanor and Park, #RainbowRowell

#Books #bookstodon #FictionReader #FictionFriday