![]() “It’s not as though I’m without a plan - I have a plan,” he insists. Yet as the novel grew in scope - it spans seven decades, from 1900 to the 1970s, and more than 700 pages - Verghese found himself constantly reworking things. This is where the cast of his new novel, “ The Covenant of Water,” took shape - where he jotted down notes and drew sketches of characters including Big Ammachi, the book’s matriarch, whom we first meet as a 12-year-old bride in South India her son, Philipose, who chronicles the lives of local villagers in newspaper columns signed “The Ordinary Man” his wife, Elsie, an artist of transcendent gifts and their daughter, Mariamma, an aspiring physician. He swivels in his chair to point to it over Zoom. ![]() There’s a large whiteboard to the side of Abraham Verghese, acclaimed author and, by day, professor at Stanford University School of Medicine. If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from, whose fees support independent bookstores. ![]()
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