![]() ![]() Patchett presents a loving relationship where Marina and Mr. Fox is a polite, unmarried man, respectful of Marina just as he’s discreet about dating one of his younger researchers. That secret relationship is about the spiciest thing going for her, but even it is fairly unremarkable. Fox (that’s what she calls him, being his employee before his lover), who is about 20 years older than her. ![]() She shares a small office with Anders Eckman, and she’s having a secret relationship with Vogel’s CEO, Mr. Before the book begins, Doctor Marina Singh has a quiet, safe job doing unremarkable research for Vogel, an American pharmaceutical company. There are many things that disorient in this book, and Patchett captures the feelings wonderfully. She’s sensitive to physical details but, importantly, also to how those details are perceived in a disoriented mind. I don’t read anything and everything set in the Amazon, but I trust Patchett enough to let her take me there again. I’ve explained before ( here) that I spent a couple of years in the Amazon region of Brazil. ![]() I read and enjoyed Ann Patchett’s Bel Canto and The Patron Saint of Liars, but in neither case did I fall in love and feel I needed to read more of her work. For whatever reason, I’ve passed on her other books and skipped Run when it came out a few years ago. In fact, I would have skipped her most recent, State of Wonder, had it not been for a personal interest: this book is set in the Amazon. State of Wonder by Ann Patchett (2011) HarperCollins (2011) 353 pp ![]()
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