We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. Dr. Abraham Verghese teaches medical students at Stanford University's School of Medicine. But he has another calling: ...

When you come to the end of Abraham Verghese's new novel, "The Covenant of Water," you will feel that you have lived among the Indian and Anglo-Indian characters who populate its pages for almost a ...

We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. Oprah Winfrey has selected "The Covenant of Water," written by acclaimed author Abraham Verghese, as her newest book ...

In interviews, Verghese has suggested that his decision to study medicine was mostly practical. The child of a middle-class Indian family can “either be a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer, or a failure,” ...

Reviewer Sibani Ram is a recent graduate of Duke University who grew up in Dubuque. See the author: Dr. Abraham Verghese will read from "The Covenant of Water" at the Iowa City Public Library at 7 p.m ...