Eat Your Words: The Covenant of Water with Special Guest, Indu Gargeya
Eat Your WordsCost:
$ 60.00 per personDuration:
2hAbout this experience
Wednesday, 11:30 am – 1:30 pm
April 30
Greensboro Country Club
Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese, is set in 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. 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.
Refund Policy
To receive a refund, a written request must be received 3 business days before the first class. A $25 processing fee will be deducted from the refund. Cancellation requests received less than 3 business days before the first class but before the second meeting will receive a 50% refund. ALL written requests should be emailed to emeritus@spartanstrategiesinc.org or mailed to the address below.
Spartan Strategies, Inc.
Attn: Emeritus Society
5900 Summit Avenue, #201
Browns Summit, NC 27214
Your Host
Born near Kerala, Indu Gargeya moved to America in the 1980s with her arranged-marriage beau proving that life can be wonderfully unscripted. Upon finishing her graduate studies in biochemistry and microbiology, she turned her microscope to two macroorganisms: her loving daughter and son. Volunteering in their schools and with community organizations became a part of her script, as did the four book clubs she joined. She runs one of them, which is the only running she does since her hip replacement. Her parents’ script for her involved studying South Indian classical music. She recently took on North Indian classical and Western classical music as well, guided by the adage: why limit yourself to one language when you can mispronounce several. In this chapter, Indu will share her take on "The Covenant of Water", promising not to flood us with details, but keep us afloat with insights.