My Own Country

National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist “A fine mix of compassion and precision . . . Verghese makes indelible narratives of his cases, and they read like wrenching short stories.”—Pico Iyer, Time Abraham Verghese has garnered worldwide acclaim for his New York Times bestselling novel The Covenant of Water , selected as an Oprah’s Book Club Pick and spanning the years 1900 to 1977 in Kerala, India. In his first book, My Own Country , Verghese examined an American crisis from the vantage of a