Novel 'The Covenant of Water' tells of a family in India haunted by a medical mystery

Lee Hale
Ari Shapiro
Kat Lonsdorf

August 31, 2023 / 3:10 pm

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with the author Abraham Verghese about his new novel The Covenant of Water in which a family in India is haunted by a medical mystery.

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