Page Turners book club meets the second Tuesday of the month at 1:00 PM.

We have two options for joining in on our book club, in person at the Gathering Place or via Zoom. The Gathering Place is located at 2304 Periwinkle Way. It sits behind the St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church (it’s the Noah’s Ark building). Please enter through the Dunlop entrance. It’s across from Big Arts.

Contact us at santivaislanders@gmail.com, for questions, to be added to the Page Turners’ email list, and to receive the Zoom information.

The book for discussion on Tuesday, October 10 is The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese.

The Covenant of Water is the long-awaited new novel by Abraham Verghese, the author of Cutting for Stone. 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. The family is part of a Christian community that traces itself to the time of the apostles, but times are shifting, and the matriarch of this family, known as Big Ammachi—literally “Big Mother”—will witness unthinkable changes at home and at large over the span of her extraordinary life.