State of wonder

Dr Marina Singh, the 42-year-old research scientist who is the heroine of State of Wonder, Ann Patchett’s most far-flung yet somehow least exotic book, is in her office at a large pharmaceutical company in Minnesota when the bad news arrives. Marina does unremarkable research on cholesterol. She is having an unremarkable affair with Mr Fox, the company’s CEO. The bland, far-from-fantastic Mr Fox arrives to tell her that her research partner, Dr Anders Eckman, has died of a fever in a remote part of Brazil.

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