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DESCRIPTION:Do you love to read and talk about books?  Are you interested 
 in participating in a book discussion on Zoom in American Sign Language?  
 If so\, this book club is for YOU!  .\nhttps://dclibrary.libnet.info/event
 /15023926
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>Come join us for an ASL Book Club on Zoom 
 every other month on a Wednesday evening from 6-7 p.m.&nbsp\;ET.</p>\n<p>T
 he ASL Book Club is facilitated by Librarian Janice Rosen from the Center 
 for Accessibility.</p>\n<p><strong>NOTE:</strong> Even if you do not know 
 sign language\, you are welcome to join us. Voice and automatic captioning
  will be provided!</p>\n<p>The book for November 18\, 2026 is <em><strong>
 The Covenant of Water</strong></em> by Abraham Verghese</p>\n<p><strong>Ab
 stract:</strong></p>\n<p>"From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cu
 tting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love\, faith\, an
 d medicine\, set in Kerala\, South India\, following three generations of 
 a family seeking the answers to a strange secret. The Covenant of Water is
  the long-awaited new novel by Abraham Verghese\, the author of the major 
 word-of-mouth bestseller Cutting for Stone\, which has sold over 1.5 milli
 on copies in the United States alone and remained on the New York Times be
 stseller list for over two years. Spanning the years 1900 to 1977\, <em>Th
 e Covenant of Water</em> is set in Kerala\, on South India's Malabar Coast
 \, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affli
 ction: in every generation\, at least one person dies by drowning--and in 
 Kerala\, water is everywhere. At the turn of the century\, a twelve-year-o
 ld girl from Kerala's long-existing Christian community\, grieving the dea
 th of her father\, is sent by boat to her wedding\, where she will meet he
 r forty-year-old husband for the first time. From this unforgettable new b
 eginning\, the young girl--and future matriarch\, known as Big Ammachi--wi
 ll witness unthinkable changes over the span of her extraordinary life\, f
 ull of joy and triumph as well as hardship and loss\, her faith and love t
 he only constants. A shimmering evocation of a bygone India and of the pas
 sage of time itself\, <em>The Covenant of Water</em> is a hymn to progress
  in medicine and to human understanding\, and a humbling testament to the 
 difficulties undergone by past generations for the sake of those alive tod
 ay. Imbued with humor\, deep emotion\, and the essence of life\, it is one
  of the most masterful literary novels published in recent years"-</p>\n<p
 ></p>\n<p><a href="https://catalog.dclibrary.org/search/card?id=e7b3d705-a
 153-5157-b8fd-310c0920db73&amp\;entityType=FormatGroup">Check out "The Cov
 enant of Water"</a></p>\n<p></p>\n<p></p>\nhttps://dclibrary.libnet.info/e
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