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She is twelve years old, and she is getting married tomorrow morning.
Abraham Verghese’s The Water Covenant is a stunning, gripping novel about three generations of a Christian family in Kerala, South India, who suffer from a strange curse: at least one person in each generation dies by drowning. The family’s story is bizarrely intertwined with that of a Scottish doctor from Glasgow who is swept up in India by fate.
The novel begins with a twelve-year-old girl being sent on a boat to a wedding, where she meets her husband for the first time. She joins a wealthy family and becomes the Great Ammachi, the matriarch of an extraordinary family that will endure hardships, celebrate triumphs, and witness unimaginable changes over the decades that follow.
It begins in 1900 and ends in the mid-1970s, although it never really ends. A sophisticated modern classic, The Testament of Water is an unforgettable and stunning epic of love, faith, and medicine.