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Tragedy, Hope, and a Medical Mystery: 'The Covenant of Water'

Medicine and the Machine

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How to Write a Novel in India

The striking thing was how you went back to 1900 all the way through 1970s and so not only a geography that perhaps you were only familiar with from summers with your grandparents or the medical school at Woodrow's on the other side of the country. How did you do this all these decades that you know how you could possibly be accurate and take us back in time like that? Well I mean it was first of all it was actually a lot of fun because if you think about it that's an incredibly important epoch in human history. It's a very very interesting and well known time period to write about.I had a couple of spreadsheets going with all the medical advances year by year from

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