The Covenant of Water (Oprah's Book Club)

OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone 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. Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, Abraham Verghese's masterful novel follows three generations of a Christian family in Kerala, South India, that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning.