The Covenant of Water book review

It has been from generation to generation that we don't mess with water. Keep reading to find out what I'm talking about today. 

We're talking about fulfilling your dreams: win the Oscar, write that award-winning book, record 500 videos and get monetized. Fulfill your dreams. Today, we're discussing the book "The Covenant of Water." The author of the book is Abraham Verghese. The genre of the book is fiction, and its theme is literature. 

724 pages. When I listened to the audiobook, it was 33 hours long, and it was so good. My favorite quote is, "We don't have children to fulfill our dreams; children allow us to let go of the dreams we were never meant to fulfill." What does that have to do with the covenant of water? 

This book is absolutely, absolutely, absolutely heartbreaking in the best way possible. So this book follows a family that is afraid of water. You see someone marry into the family. The husband is scared of water. They have a baby, and the baby won't put their head in the water. What is going on with this water? Hates water.

So, they then have more children. One child loves playing in the water all day, can't get enough of it. Then you have another child, who loves it when it rains, just sitting and watching the water. The child who absolutely hates the water ends up encountering people who are almost drowning. So, the kid grows up, and you're like, 'Oh my gosh, he was watching the doctor.' He's gonna be a doctor, nope. Abraham said that's not the storyline.

So he grew up. Still hates water. Has a child who loves water, but he's so cautious that he doesn't want her to ever be around the water. And so then the mom is here. She's obsessed with water. She's walking through monsoons to get here. What is the deal with water? 

So, back to the quote. The granddaughter is fulfilling the dreams that I thought the dad might have had. She becomes a doctor, but she discovers a genetic issue within their family that causes them to become off-kilter or skewed when they are around water. It is not just a phobia. It has been passed down from generation to generation that we don't mess with water.

And it's fascinating that it took all these generations, multiple deaths of people, and numerous occurrences of water —large bodies of water, baths, drinking water, and all its iterations —to reach the granddaughter who eventually discovers the issue. 

An incredible book, so good. It's like Grey's Anatomy in the Middle East; that's the best way I can describe it. This book is phenomenal. I was going to say this is the type of book that makes me not want to write, and I know it's not about reaching his level. It's about reaching my level. I don't even have this kind of story in me, but this book was very, very good. I came across this book when President Obama released his list of must-reads for 2023. I was like, 'Okay, let me pick that up and see what it's about,' and it is so good, so good.

Until the next book review, Kyla