Dr. Marina Singh is a pharmaceutical researcher. She has been sent by her boss (and lover) to check on the research of gynecologist Dr. Anneck Swenson who is working in the Amazon jungle. The research involves a tribe where women reproduce well past middle age. The two women have a past, Dr. Swenson once having been Marina's mentor, and this makes things a bit prickly.
Marina is also asked to bring back the belongings and paperwork of a colleague who has recently died at the jungle research area. There is somewahat of a mystery surrounding demise. He is a close friend and yet another unresolved issue for her. She seems to have many.
The Amazon jungle comes alive with Patchett's writing. The characters are kind of interesting and eccentric and the book did keep me going in a continuous nine hour read. However, I am already unclear as to how I should describe these characters and the plot.
Ann Patchett writes too well for this to have been a bad book, but on a scale of 1-10, it only gets a six from me.
Marina is also asked to bring back the belongings and paperwork of a colleague who has recently died at the jungle research area. There is somewahat of a mystery surrounding demise. He is a close friend and yet another unresolved issue for her. She seems to have many.
The Amazon jungle comes alive with Patchett's writing. The characters are kind of interesting and eccentric and the book did keep me going in a continuous nine hour read. However, I am already unclear as to how I should describe these characters and the plot.
Ann Patchett writes too well for this to have been a bad book, but on a scale of 1-10, it only gets a six from me.
