State of Wonder / Ann Patchett.
A researcher at a pharmaceutical company, Marina Singh journeys into the heart of the Amazonian delta to check on a field team that has been silent for two years--a dangerous assignment that forces Marina to confront the ghosts of her past.
Dr. 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. Once 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.
Record details
- ISBN: 0062049801
- ISBN: 006204981X
- ISBN: 0062207253
- ISBN: 9780062049803
- ISBN: 9780062049810
- ISBN: 9780062207258
- Physical Description: 353 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : Harper, [2011]
- Copyright: ©2011
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| Target Audience Note: | 990L Lexile |
| Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR UG 6.7 21 155135. |
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| Subject: | Jungles > Amazon River Region > Fiction. Medicine > Research > Fiction. Scientists > Fiction. Amazon River Region > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Action and adventure fiction. |
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