Dr. Marina Singh is upset to hear of the death of her colleague Anders Eckman in the Amazon rain forest. Anders had traveled there to check up on the progress of a drug in development by Dr. Annick Swenson. The big pharma company that they work for wanted to ensure that the research was on track but no answers were provided before Anders died. Now Marina is sent to Brazil to look into the progress herself, and gain a deeper understanding of Anders' death at the request of his wife. State of Wonder by Ann Patchett is a unique story that gets at the way pharmaceutical companies research plant sources for new drugs. I enjoyed this different sort of storyline that takes the reader into the jungle and shows how Dr. Swenson and her researchers live with the indigenous people, trying not to interfere with their lifestyle too much, but obviously having some effect. The drug that they are researching was quite interesting and presented some moral and ethical issues, as I'm sure so
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