Oprah calls the long-awaited follow-up to 'Cutting for Stone' by Abraham Verghese, founding director of The Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics at UT Health Science Center San Antonio, one of her 'Top 3 books of all time.'
Abraham Verghese's new novel is"The Covenant of Water." Verghese served as the founding director of The Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio from 2002 to 2007. That tenure overlapped with his writing of “Cutting for Stone."Winfrey announced today on “CBS Mornings” that the book, the long-awaited follow-up to Verghese’s acclaimed first novel “Cutting for Stone,” is the new“I felt transported.
“This goes on my list of Top 3 books of all time,” she said. “And that includes Ms. Toni Morrison. I have never felt this way about a book."
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