State of Wonder Book Review

In State of Wonder, pharmaceutical researcher Dr. Marina Singh sets off into the Amazon jungle to find the remains and effects of a colleague who recently died under somewhat mysterious circumstances. But first she must locate Dr. Anneck Swenson, a renowned gynecologist who has spent years looking at the reproductive habits of a local tribe where women can conceive well into their middle ages and beyond. Eccentric and notoriously tough, Swenson is paid to find the key to this longstanding childbearing ability by the same company for which Dr. Singh works. Yet that isn’t their only connection: both have an overlapping professional past that Dr. Singh has long tried to forget. In finding her former mentor, Dr. Singh must face her own disappointments and regrets, along with the jungle’s unforgiving humidity and insects, making State of Wonder a multi-layered atmospheric novel that is hard to put down. Indeed, Patchett solidifies her well-deserved place as one of today’s master storytellers( amazon.com)


I tried to get into this book. It was written in third person , and through out it a character is referred as Mr. Fox. I can see that this book has hope , but I was truly depressed reading this book . Once I put it aside I was feeling much better. I couldn't tell if it was the writing or the fact that the doctor has daddy issues or traveling anywhere.  Marina is dating Mr. Fox who is the CEO of the company that wants to send to the Amazon.

You Might like this book , but I didn't.

DNF= Did Not Finish