{"id":852,"date":"2011-06-30T22:05:32","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T22:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=852"},"modified":"2015-04-08T18:34:31","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T18:34:31","slug":"state-of-wonder-by-ann-patchett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=852","title":{"rendered":"State of Wonder by Ann Patchett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-937 size-full\" title=\"State of Wonder\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/State-of-Wonder.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"131\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Marina Singh is\u00a0a pharmaceutical researcher with a firm that is seeking a potentially lucrative\u00a0answer to extending women&#8217;s\u00a0fertility. When a cryptic note arrives from South America, announcing the death of\u00a0a colleague, Marina is sent to the sweltering Amazon jungle to\u00a0investigate.\u00a0 Her meeting there\u00a0with 73-year-old, pregnant, Dr. Annick Swenson,\u00a0Marina&#8217;s former mentor and hero, leads to insights that a sterile lab would never provide.\u00a0\u00a0 Ms. Patchett\u00a0 captures the chaos of the jungle in her prose,\u00a0but the heart of the story lies in\u00a0the conflict between the pharmaceutical company&#8217;s desire for profit and the morality of developing a drug that could have profound negative effects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Marina Singh is\u00a0a pharmaceutical researcher with a firm that is seeking a potentially lucrative\u00a0answer to extending women&#8217;s\u00a0fertility. When a cryptic note arrives from South America, announcing the death of\u00a0a colleague, Marina is sent to the sweltering Amazon jungle to\u00a0investigate.\u00a0 Her meeting there\u00a0with 73-year-old, pregnant, Dr. Annick Swenson,\u00a0Marina&#8217;s former mentor and hero, leads to insights &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=852\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">State of Wonder by Ann Patchett<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,8,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-linda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}