Once-in-a-While Book Club
NOTE: All spots FILLED for April 14th meeting.
We’re reading Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese!
Contact me if you’d like to join us for the September meeting.
We are meeting on April 14th from 3:30 to 5 PM at my house in Rancho Palos Verdes.
Our book selection is The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese.
Amazon says this: 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. I can’t wait to dive into this BRICK of a book!
Remember, the Once-in-a-While Book Club is for book lovers who can’t commit to monthly meetings (I crack myself up). It’s an afternoon of bookish conversation that happens around my dining room table once-in-a-while. Read the book. Show up comfy and casual. I’ll do the rest.
Who: Limited to the first eight book-loving humans who email me at LorrieTom@LorrieT.com and say they’d like to attend. Address supplied after your spot is confirmed. Feel free to share this with a friend!
What:
Read The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese .
Show up COMFY and CASUAL with your book or Kindle in hand.
Light snacks, tea, and fizzy water served. If you’d like to bring something to share, that’s welcome but not expected.
When: Sunday, April 14 from 3:30 to 5 PM PACIFIC.
Where: My dining room table in my actual house! Address supplied after enrollment confirmation, but for your planning purposes, I live in Rancho Palos Verdes near Peninsula High School.
How: Email me (LorrieTom@LorrieT.com) to see if there is still space and then I’ll send you my address. People who are subscribed to my newsletter get priority registration.
Cost: This one’s on me. It’s free.
Information About Our Book
From Amazon: OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • SUBJECT OF A SIX-PART SUPER SOUL PODCAST SERIES HOSTED BY OPRAH WINFREY
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
“One of the best books I’ve read in my entire life. It’s epic. It’s transportive . . . It was unputdownable!”—Oprah Winfrey, OprahDaily.com
The Covenant of Water is the long-awaited new novel by Abraham Verghese, the author of the major word-of-mouth bestseller Cutting for Stone, which has sold over 1.5 million copies in the United States alone and remained on the New York Times bestseller list for over two years.
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.
A shimmering evocation of a bygone India and of the passage of time itself, The Covenant of Water is a hymn to progress in medicine and to human understanding, and a humbling testament to the difficulties undergone by past generations for the sake of those alive today. It is one of the most masterful literary novels published in recent years.
If you have any questions, contact me.
And remember, even if you hate this book, come to the meeting cuz different opinions make for good conversations—at least in The Land of Lorrie Tom Writes (and Reads).