From the New York Times–bestselling author of Cutting for Stone, The Covenant of Water is an epic novel spanning 1900 to 1977 set on Kerala’s Malabar Coast. Following three generations of a family plagued by a peculiar affliction—at least one person in each generation dies by drowning—the story centers on Big Ammachi and traces love, faith, medicine, and social change across decades. An Oprah’s Book Club pick and lauded as a transportive, unputdownable work.