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Part One

· The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Verghese, Abraham. The Covenant of Water. First Grove Atlantic, 2023. Hardcover.

· The book covers different time periods and skips around in time.

· The title of each chapter indicates the period of time covered in that section.

· The chapter abstracts use the present tense and provide a linear summary.

· Occasionally, the narrator tells what the future holds.

· Those sections are told in the future tense.

· In Part One, Chapter 1, “Always, 1900, Travancore, South India,” a 12-year-old girl who comes to be called Ammachi, leaves home to marry a 40-year-old widower, who has a two-year-old son.

· Ammachi’s father had been sent to a troubled church near Mundakayam, a place where Ammachi and her mother could not go.

· When he returned home, he was desperately ill with chills and fever and died from the malady.

· Ammachi and...

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