So “State of Wonder” is headed for Brazil. Swenson was a medical school professor of Marina’s and was so tough that she stopped Marina’s medical career in its tracks. Annick Swenson, a fierce if not exactly irreproachable figure. The letter announcing Anders’s death comes from Dr. Patchett has embedded many small hints about her much larger novel in this miniature scene. Patchett writes, “as if she were an extension ruler and her ankles and knees and hips were all being brought together at closer angles.” “There was inside of her a very modest physical collapse, not a faint but a sort of folding,” Ms. Marina suddenly grasps why people faced with sudden shock are often advised to sit down. Patchett gives a quick glimpse of how crystalline and exquisite her prose can be. In Marina’s reaction to this terrible news, which comes on only the book’s second page, Ms. Anders Eckman, has died of a fever in a remote part of Brazil. Fox arrives to tell her that her research partner, Dr. She is having an unremarkable affair with Mr. Marina does unremarkable research on cholesterol. 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.
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