Houston Women's Book Club

Details:

We will meet in the St. John the Divine Chapel Bride's Room at 2450 River Oaks Boulevard, 77019. Please reserve a free ticket for each meeting you plan to attend.

To find the Chapel Family Room, please park in the circle drive on River Oaks Boulevard, then enter through the double red doors, and proceed into the hallway on the right.

Don't miss out on this enriching experience! Save the date, and join us at the Houston Women's Book Club. We can't wait to embark on this literary journey with you!

ECW Bookclub Fall 2024 Schedule:

Tuesday, September 17
THE COVENANT OF WATER by Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone
A stunning, magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine set in Kerala, India evolving over generations.

Tuesday, October 15
THE ROSE CODE by Kate Quinn, author of The Alice Network
Three female code breakers during and in the aftermath of World War II.

Tuesday, November 19
THE TIDE BETWEEN US: AN IRISH CARIBBEAN STORY OF SLAVERY AND EMANCIPATION by Olive Collins

Tuesday, December 10
A DICTIONARY OF LOST WORDS by Pip Williams
The overlooked role of women in the compilation of the Oxford Dictionary recommended by Maretta Toedt.

About our next book:

Tuesday, September 17 : The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese

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 million copies in the United States alone and remained on the New York Times bestseller list for over two years.

Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on South 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 long-existing 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, known as 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 difficulties undergone by past generations for the sake of those alive today. It is one of the most masterful literary novels published in recent years.

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