Since the book is 736 pages we will be having 2 meetings-please read about half and in November we will discuss the first 300 or so pages and in December we will discuss the remainder.

The book tells the story of a [Malayali](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayali "Malayali") family living in southwest [India](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India "India"), in the [Kerala](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala "Kerala") state, with the narrative spanning three generations, from 1900 to 1977. In each generation, some members of the family die by drowning because of an affliction they refer to as "The Condition”.

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