Abraham Verghese Returns to Novels with 'The Covenant of Water'

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Dr. Abraham Verghese made headlines for writing the bestselling novel, Cutting For Stone, all the while remaining in practice as a doctor. Over a decade later Verghese returns with his second novel, The Covenant of Water, which follows a family in India with a strange curse: one member of each generation seems destined to die by drowning. Verghese joins us to discuss.