{"product_id":"state-of-wonder-a-novel-isbn-9780062049803","title":"State of Wonder: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eNew\u003cbr\u003eYork Times\u003c\/em\u003e Bestseller; Orange Prize nominee; a \u003cem\u003eTime\u003c\/em\u003e Magazine’s Best Books of the Year; a Publisher’s Weekly’s Best Top Ten Best Books; and a Wellcome Trust Book\u003cbr\u003ePrize nominee.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Expect miracles when you read Ann Patchett’s fiction.”—\u003cem\u003eNew\u003cbr\u003e  York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAward-winning, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling\u003cbr\u003e  author Ann Patchett returns with a provocative and assured novel of morality\u003cbr\u003e  and miracles, science and sacrifice set in the Amazon rainforest.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarina Singh is a research scientist at Vogel,\u003cbr\u003e  a pharmaceutical institute in Minnesota, and inconveniently in love with her\u003cbr\u003e  boss, Mr. Fox. When one of her colleagues is reported to have died while\u003cbr\u003e  following up on the progress of a field team based in Brazil, Marina is\u003cbr\u003e  dispatched by Mr. Fox to the Amazon to uncover the truth of his death. And\u003cbr\u003e  his widow wants his effects. She travels to Manaus, then down into the\u003cbr\u003e  Amazonian delta, deep into the dense, dark, insect-infested jungle. The\u003cbr\u003e  research team is looking into the development of a new miracle drug that\u003cbr\u003e  could revolutionize Western society. A local tribe has the bark of a certain\u003cbr\u003e  tree, it yields a substance which allows them to conceive late into middle\u003cbr\u003e  age: many of the women are getting pregnant into their sixties and seventies.\u003cbr\u003e  The problem is that the team is taking too long: they have been silent for\u003cbr\u003e  two years, and Marina has been tasked to find out what is holding back their\u003cbr\u003e  progress. The second problem is more serious: the team is being headed up by\u003cbr\u003e  the daunting figure of Annick Swenson, an eminent and fiercely uncompromising\u003cbr\u003e  scientist who was once Marina’s colleague, and towards whom Marina has very\u003cbr\u003e  complicated feelings. What Marina learns will change her life. In a novel\u003cbr\u003e  that is packed with amazing twists and surprises, Ann Patchett returns with\u003cbr\u003e  immense confidence to a broad canvas, teeming with atmosphere and characters\u003cbr\u003e  and rich with narrative. Remarkable events--fights with anacondas;\u003cbr\u003e  encounters with cannibals; deaths; re-births--and profound moral decisions\u003cbr\u003e  come together in a novel that will enthrall her many readers and fans and is\u003cbr\u003e  guaranteed to be a major bestseller.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInfusing the narrative with the\u003cbr\u003e  same ingenuity and emotional urgency that pervaded her acclaimed previous\u003cbr\u003e  novels \u003cem\u003eBel Canto\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTaft\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cem\u003e Run\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe\u003cbr\u003e  Magician’s Assistant\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Patron Saint of Liars\u003c\/em\u003e, Patchett\u003cbr\u003e  delivers an enthralling, innovative tale of aspiration, exploration, and\u003cbr\u003e  attachment in \u003cem\u003eState of Wonder\u003c\/em\u003e—a gripping adventure story and a\u003cbr\u003e  profound look at the difficult choices we make in the name of discovery and\u003cbr\u003e  love.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eAnn Patchett has dazzled readers with her award-winning books, including \u003cem\u003eThe Magician's Assistant\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling \u003cem\u003eBel Canto\u003c\/em\u003e. Now she raises the bar with \u003cem\u003eState of Wonder\u003c\/em\u003e, a provocative and ambitious novel set deep in the Amazon jungle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr. Marina Singh, a research scientist with a Minnesota pharmaceutical company, is sent to Brazil to track down her former mentor, Dr. Annick Swenson, who seems to have all but disappeared in the Amazon while working on what is destined to be an extremely valuable new drug, the development of which has already cost the company a fortune. Nothing about Marina's assignment is easy: not only does no one know where Dr. Swenson is, but the last person who was sent to find her, Marina's research partner Anders Eckman, died before he could complete his mission. Plagued by trepidation, Marina embarks on an odyssey into the insect-infested jungle in hopes of finding her former mentor as well as answers to several troubling questions about her friend's death, the state of her company's future, and her own past. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnce found, Dr. Swenson, now in her seventies, is as ruthless and uncompromising as she ever was back in the days of Grand Rounds at Johns Hopkins. With a combination of science and subterfuge, she dominates her research team and the natives she is studying with the force of an imperial ruler. But while she is as threatening as anything the jungle has to offer, the greatest sacrifices to be made are the ones Dr. Swenson asks of herself, and will ultimately ask of Marina, who finds she may still be unable to live up to her teacher's expectations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a narrative replete with poison arrows, devouring snakes, and a neighboring tribe of cannibals, \u003cem\u003eState of Wonder\u003c\/em\u003e is a world unto itself, where unlikely beauty stands beside unimaginable loss. It is a tale that leads the reader into the very heart of darkness, and then shows us what lies on the other side.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Her best novel.…These pages have a pulsing, seductive rhythm… The wonder of \u003cem\u003eState of Wonder\u003c\/em\u003e is that Patchett poses essential philosophical and bioethical arguments in a story that still speeds along like a literary thriller, reaching a tremendous, deeply emotional crescendo. Bella scrittura.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Packs a textbook’s worth of ethical conundrums into a smart and tidily delivered story. . . . Ms. Patchett presents an alluring interplay between civilization and wilderness, between aid and exploitation.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In her most incisive work yet, Patchett achieves alchemy, creating complex, compelling characters, packing a Ph.D.’s worth of scientific knowledge into a nail-biting narrative, setting stark human dilemmas against a lush, exotic backdrop.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Outlandishly entertaining…[with] a brilliantly constructed plot.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[A] gripping new novel. . . . Patchett has an uncanny knack for writing stories about complex characters to whom things \u003cem\u003eactually happen\u003c\/em\u003e. True to form, she manages to braid questions of medical and social ethics alongside encounters with cannibals, anacondas, even an opera house, making this a bubbling stew of a novel.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarie Claire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Extraordinary. . . . Is there nothing the prodigiously talented Ann Patchett can’t do? . . . Patchett’s last knockout pages proceed full-speed ahead, with more twists and turns and trachery than the Amazon River. Nothing is as it seems, and the ending is as shocking as it’s satisfying.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Patchett makes the jungle jump off the page…This is Patchett’s best effort since \u003cem\u003eThe Patron Saint of Liars\u003c\/em\u003e and, yes, that includes \u003cem\u003eBel Canto\u003c\/em\u003e” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The Amazon setting is something Patchett does rather marvelously.… The book is serious, but also so pleasurable that you hope it won’t end.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNPR\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Emotionally lucid. . . . Patchett is at her lyrical best when she catalogues the jungle.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An engaging, consummately told tale.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This is surely the smartest, most exciting novel of the summer.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A thrilling new novel. . . . The world imagined in this novel is unusually vivid. . . . Reading \u003ci\u003eState of Wonder\u003c\/i\u003e is a sensory experience, and even after it’s over you’ll keep hearing the sounds of insects, and your own head will still be hot.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A spellbinder from bestselling author Patchett. . . . Thrilling, disturbing and moving in equal measures—even better than Patchett’s breakthrough \u003cem\u003eBel Canto\u003c\/em\u003e.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A superbly rendered novel. . . . Patchett’s portrayal is as wonderful as it is frightening and foreign. Patchett exhibits an extraordinary ability to bring the horrors and the wonders of the Amazon jungle to life, and her singular characters are wonderfully drawn. . . . Powerful and captivating.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A thrilling new novel. . . . The world imagined in this novel is unusually vivid. . . . Reading \u003cem\u003eState of Wonder\u003c\/em\u003e is a sensory experience, and even after it’s over you’ll keep hearing the sounds of insects, and your own head will still be hot.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMORE Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The large canvas of sweeping moral issues, both personal and global, comes to life through careful attention to details, however seemingly mundane—from ill-fitting shoes and mosquito bites to a woman tenderly braiding another woman’s hair.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eO, the Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44889288016101,"sku":"NP9780062049803","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780062049803.jpg?v=1730230934","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/state-of-wonder-a-novel-isbn-9780062049803","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}