![]() ![]() It is a test of character for your character. Her 2001 novel Bel Canto won her both the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Pen/Faulkner Award.Īnn Patchett spoke with The Book Show's Kate Pearcy about setting State of Wonder in the Amazon.Īnn Patchett: It's a great ploy for a novelist find a happy, regular, well-adjusted person with a stable life, take everything away from them, and throw them in the river and see if they sink or if they swim. ![]() State of Wonder is Ann Patchett's eighth book. But when she gets there she discovers an Amazonian tribe in which women remain fertile until they die. It's a fitting description for State of Wonder.Īnn Patchett's heroine is medical researcher Marina Singh, who is sent deep into the Amazon to investigate the death of her lab partner. Anita Barraud: The New York Times has described award-winning American novelist Ann Patchett's new book as 'her Amazon wonder-drug novel'. ![]()
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