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The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese: what to read next, and why.

Cutting for Stone Abraham Verghese 2009 · Historical The author's earlier novel, with the same love of medicine, family secrets and long arcs of time.
A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini 2007 · Literary Another story of women's resilience across decades, tighter and more tragic.
The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy 1997 · Literary Also set in Kerala, but a compressed, poetic tragedy compared with this book's slow river of events.