Abraham Verghese, THE COVENANT OF WATER

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 5 May 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Zibby is joined by doctor and New York Times bestselling author Abraham Verghese to discuss The Covenant of Water, a dazzling and unforgettable story of love, faith, and medicine that follows three generations of a family navigating a deadly curse in South India. Abraham reveals the inspiration behind this story and discusses the elements that stand out: loss, family, and arranged marriage. He also talks about his career in medicine and explains how it led him to write (it involves a scientific study on HIV, grief, and a spontaneous MFA). Then, he and Zibby discuss the beauty and power of fiction – it lets us escape, grows our empathy, and ultimately reveals fundamental truths and insights about our own lives. The Covenant of Water was just chosen as Oprah's 101st book club pick!

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
0:06.7	This 30-minute podcast features a new author interviewed by me every single day, 365 days a year, for about 30 minutes.
0:14.9	I am also the publisher for Zibi Books, which publishes 12 books a year in fiction and memoir.
0:21.9	Our books are already out now.
0:23.5	You can check it out on ZippyBooks.com.
0:25.6	And we have a magazine called ZibbyMag where we have lots of wonderful essays and lifestyle
0:31.2	features.
0:31.8	That's at Zibbymag.com.
0:33.1	We have classes at Zippy Classes.com.
0:35.4	And I recently opened a bookstore in L.A. called Zibby's Bookshop
0:40.3	at 1-1-1-3 Montana Avenue at 11th Street in San Monica. I hope that you are able to enjoy some of
0:47.9	our other offerings. But this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in 2018.
0:56.1	And no matter what I do, this is basically my favorite thing. Enjoy.
1:03.2	Abraham Vigese is the author of The Covenant of Water. He is a graduate of the Iowa
1:09.2	Writers Workshop and the author of many other books,
1:13.5	including the NBCC Award finalist, My Own Country, the New York Times notable book, The Tennis
1:19.4	Partner, which we talked about, and the novel Cutting for Stone, which we also talked about,
1:24.1	which spent 107 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and sold more than
1:28.0	1.5 million copies in the U.S. alone. It was translated into more than 20 languages and is being
1:33.8	adapted for film by anonymous content. Fagese was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2016,
1:40.3	has received five honorary degrees, and is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine
1:46.0	and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He lives and practices medicine in Stanford, California,
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