Bookshop Santa Cruz presents: Abraham Verghese | THE COVENANT OF WATER

ABOUT THE EVENT + TICKETS:

This in-person event will include a discussion with the author as well as audience Q&A. The event will run approximately one hour and will be followed by a book signing. Tickets include ALL taxes and fees. Please review your package options carefully:

• Entry for 1 person, plus complimentary book: $29.99

• Entry for 2 people, plus complimentary book: $39.99

Please select your tickets carefully! Note that: Each admission package contains separate barcodes for each individual's entry and your complimentary book. So, that's 2 ticket barcodes in a 1-person entry package; 3 ticket barcodes in a 2-person package. (The book has its own code so that you can pick it up early beginning on 5/6, its release date, until the day of the event, if you want to!) Books uncollected at the event will be held at Bookshop Santa Cruz for two months, after which they will be donated.

Please note: Seats unoccupied 20 minutes after the event starts are subject to release.

Select your ticket package carefully! Tickets are non-refundable and do not qualify for Readers Club credit.

Thank you! We can't wait to see you at the event!

ABOUT THE BOOK + AUTHOR: 

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

An instant New York Times and indie bestseller and an Oprah Book Club Pick, The Covenant of Water has sold more than two million copies worldwide and was widely named as a best book of the year. Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, Abraham Verghese's long-awaited, masterful novel follows three generations of a Christian family in Kerala, South India, that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning. As the novel opens, a twelve-year-old girl is sent by boat to her wedding, where she meets her husband for the first time. She joins a prosperous household and becomes known as Big Ammachi, the matriarch of an extraordinary family that will endure hardship, celebrate triumph, and witness unthinkable changes over the coming decades.An exquisite modern classic finally available in paperback, The Covenant of Water is an unforgettable and stunning epic of love, faith, and medicine.

ABRAHAM VERGHESE is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the author of the NBCC Award finalist My Own Country and the New York Times Notable Book The Tennis Partner. His most recent book, Cutting for Stone, spent 107 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and sold more than two million copies worldwide. It was translated into more than twenty languages and is being adapted for film by Anonymous Content. Verghese was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Obama, has received six honorary degrees, and is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He lives and practices medicine in Stanford, California where he is the Linda R. Meier and Joan F. Lane Provostial Professor in the Stanford University School of Medicine. A decade in the making, The Covenant of Water is his first book since Cutting for Stone.

Abraham Verghese will be in conversation with Rose Feerick.

Rose Feerick is Co-Director of Wisdom & Money, a non-profit organization that offers retreats for affluent individuals who seek to align their financial resources with their spirituality in service of the common good. She also serves as one of the ministers of the Pescadero Community Church. Rose has a BA in Theology from Georgetown University and an MDiv from the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University. She lives in Santa Cruz, California and is the mother of two young adult sons.