Rose picked this for book club. Kind of long but it was OK. The second time we've been asked to read a Verghese book.
Thought it would be duplicative of the other book, but no so much.
Kerala as a place of interest, I just know it’s different but not so much why. Water! Much more criss-cross with the west than many other places in India - catholics, islam, etc. Roman coin hoards, Hard for the Mughuls to make headway.
100 years of solitude feel - overlapping names in the generations.
The idea that Elsie didn't much love Phillipose, even told him that she believed he would not interfere with her work.
A little weird that young Elsie guiding Digby's hand was too much like a lover.
Big Ammachi is a fine character - kind of central to the book. She is married into a family that experiences death through water or drowning, sometimes in odd ways, repeating over generations.
Her husband also an incredibly fine human
The way Digby’s hand was repaired (somewhat) - I just ran into that in an X post. Had no idea.
A version of Matron from the prior book was a key character here.
The Communist stuff always strikes me as absurd - meaning the author probably described it accurately! Lenin Evermore, of course.
Even tossed in a reference to liberation theology - same.
The idea of the Western Ghats as a protective barrier.
The elephant - huh?
So much leprosy. Digby immunity impressive.
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