Not too serious girly bookclub

Please Join us for the end of this book that I recommended to the group. This will be a complete discussion of the book Everyone Knows You Go Home by Natalia Sylvester.

Please join us for the final read of 2024. This is a particularly lenghty book and may be the longest book we have recommended! As such we are splitting into thirds instead of halfway. Please stop around 240. This book was first recommended by book club member Allison R but was on several members TBR. The Covenant of Water by Abraham Vergase has a 4.45 rating on goodreads and the summary is as follows.

Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on India’s Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: 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-old girl from Kerala's Christian community, grieving the death of her father, is sent by boat to her wedding, where she will meet her forty-year-old husband for the first time. From this unforgettable new beginning, the young girl—and future matriarch, Big Ammachi—will witness unthinkable changes over the span of her extraordinary life, full of joy and triumph as well as hardship and loss, her faith and love the only constants.
A shimmering evocation of a bygone India and of the passage of time itself, The Covenant of Water is a hymn to progress in medicine and to human understanding, and a humbling testament to the hardships undergone by past generations for the sake of those alive today. Imbued with humor, deep emotion, and the essence of life, it is one of the most masterful literary novels published in recent years.

This is the second of three meetings for this book as it is over 700 pages! Please stop near 480.

This is the final meeting for this book. As such it will cover all 720 plus pages.