By the Book: The Novel That Led Abraham Verghese to Medicine

“I’m ashamed to say I picked up W. Somerset Maugham’s ‘Of Human Bondage’ because the title seemed promising,” says the doctor and novelist, whose new novel is “The Covenant of Water.” “While it didn’t have the lascivious content I’d imagined, it turned out to have something better: It was the book that … called me to medicine.”

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