{"id":1092,"date":"2017-09-05T15:57:24","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T19:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.silvercentury.org\/2017\/09\/state-of-wonder\/"},"modified":"2018-06-30T13:07:43","modified_gmt":"2018-06-30T17:07:43","slug":"state-of-wonder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2017\/09\/state-of-wonder\/","title":{"rendered":"State of Wonder"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Ann Patchett – Harper, 2011<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

A medical mystery set in an exotic locale, intriguing characters, family drama, life and death\u2014it\u2019s all here in this ambitious novel. Scientist Marina Singh is dispatched to the rain forest by her Midwestern pharmaceutical company to investigate the mysterious death of a coworker. The deceased had been documenting the research of a 70-something rogue doctor who claimed that the native women of the forest could bear children throughout their full lives. Though impeded by insects, cannibals and sickness, Marina is determined to get to the bottom of the story. Your skin will crawl and your heart race as the story unfolds, and in the end of this intense and intriguing work of fiction, you may wonder, should what happens in the jungle, stay in the jungle?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A medical mystery set in an exotic locale, intriguing characters, family drama, life and death\u2014it\u2019s all here in this ambitious novel.<\/p>\n

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