The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese

Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on South
India’s Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar
affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning—and in Kerala,
water is everywhere. At the turn of the century, a twelve-year-old girl from Kerala’s long-
existing Christian community, grieving the death of her father, is sent by boat to her
wedding, where she will meet her forty-year-old husband for the first time. From this
unforgettable new beginning, the young girl—and future matriarch, known as Big
Ammachi—will witness unthinkable changes over the span of her extraordinary life, full
of joy and triumph as well as hardship and loss, her faith and love the only constants.

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