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NOW A USA TODAY BESTSELLER, this inspiring narrative chronicles the journey of a woman who leaves a successful Madison Avenue career to confront the global maternal health crisis. Prefaced by a powerful foreword from best-selling author Abraham Verghese, this 2025 International Book Award Winner in Autobiography/Memoir highlights the impact of a small group’s faith and actions in addressing urgent issues. The sobering reality that a woman is most at risk of dying or suffering severe injury during childbirth is vividly illustrated when the author visits the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital in Ethiopia. There, she witnesses young women suffering from obstetric fistula, a condition that leaves them shunned by their communities. Recognizing that surgery is the only solution, she decides to leave her advertising career behind and establish the Fistula Foundation in Silicon Valley, transforming it into a global leader in fistula treatment. Through compelling firsthand accounts from dedicated surgeons in Africa and Asia, the narrative reveals the fight to restore hope to vulnerable women. Supported by a compassionate network of donors from nearly 70 countries, the foundation operates without government funding, showcasing the profound impact of individual action. This personal journey serves as both an inspiring testament and a practical guide for those seeking to make a meaningful difference. All of the author’s net proceeds will sup

AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB SELECTION'One of the best books I've read in my entire life. It's epic. It's transportive . . . It was unputdownable!' Oprah Winfrey, OprahDaily.comSpanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water follows a family in southern India 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, 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 poignant beginning, the young girl and future matriarch - known as Big Ammachi - will witness unthinkable changes at home and at large over the span of her extraordinary life, full of the joys and trials of love and the struggles of hardship.A shimmering evocation of a lost 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 humour, deep emotion and the essence of life, it is one of the most masterful literary novels published in recent years.

"From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret. 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. Imbued with humor, deep emotion, and the essence of life, it is one of the most masterful literary novels published in recent years"-- Provided by publisher

At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, the next he was a patient struggling to live. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi's transformation from a medical student asking what makes a virtuous and meaningful life into a neurosurgeon working in the core of human identity - the brain - and finally into a patient and a new father. What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when when life is catastrophically interrupted? What does it mean to have a child as your own life fades away? Paul Kalanithi died while working on this profoundly moving book, yet his words live on as a guide to us all.

Marion e Shiva sono gemelli identici, frutto della relazione segreta tra una giovanissima suora indiana e un impenetrabile chirurgo inglese che lavorano insieme in un ospedale missionario di Addis Abeba negli anni Cinquanta. Orfani della madre, che muore durante il parto, e abbandonati dal padre, che scompare senza dare più notizie di sé, i bambini vengono adottati da una coppia di medici indiani di stanza al Missing Hospital e crescono uniti da un'intesa fortissima, quasi paranormale, e dalla medesima passione per la medicina, sullo sfondo dell'Etiopia scossa da fermenti rivoluzionari. A dividerli però non è la politica ma la passione per la stessa donna: sconvolto, Marion lascia l'Africa per gli Stati Uniti, dove si rifugia nel lavoro di medico presso un povero ospedale del Bronx. Quando il passato ritorna - e quasi lo uccide Marion si ritrova ad affidare la propria vita ai due uomini di cui meno si fida al mondo: il padre chirurgo che l'ha abbandonato e il fratello che lo ha tradito. Ed è proprio lui a raccontare in prima persona la storia di tutti.

When Abraham Verghese, a physician whose marriage is unravelling, relocates to Texas, he hopes to make a fresh start as a staff member at a county hospital.

By the bestselling author of Cutting for Stone, a story of medicine in the American heartland, and confronting one's deepest prejudices and fears. Nestled in the Smoky Mountains of eastern Tennessee, the town of Johnson City had always seemed exempt from the anxieties of modern American life. But when the local hospital treated its first AIDS patient, a crisis that had once seemed an urban problem had arrived in the town to stay. Working in Johnson City was Abraham Verghese, a young Indian doctor specializing in infectious diseases. Dr. Verghese became by necessity the local AIDS expert, soon besieged by a shocking number of male and female patients whose stories came to occupy his mind, and even take over his life. Verghese brought a singular perspective to Johnson City: as a doctor unique in his abilities; as an outsider who could talk to people suspicious of local practitioners; above all, as a writer of grace and compassion who saw that what was happening in this conservative community was both a medical and a spiritual emergency."