The problem is that the team is taking too long: they have been silent for two years, and Marina has been tasked to find out what is holding back their progress. A local tribe has the bark of a certain tree, it yields a substance which allows them to conceive late into middle age: many of the women are getting pregnant into their sixties and seventies. The research team is looking into the development of a new miracle drug that could revolutionize Western society. She travels to Manaus, then down into the Amazonian delta, deep into the dense, dark, insect-infested jungle. Fox to the Amazon to uncover the truth of his death.
When one of her colleagues is reported to have died while following up on the progress of a field team based in Brazil, Marina is dispatched by Mr. Marina Singh is a research scientist at Vogel, a pharmaceutical institute in Minnesota, inconveniently in love with her boss, Mr. She currently resides in Nashville with her husband, Karl VanDevender, and their dog, Sparky. The co-founder of Parnassus Books in Nashville, Tennessee alongside her business partner Karen Hayes, Patchett has become a passionate spokesperson for independent booksellers. Her books have been translated into over 30 languages. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Book Sense Book of the Year, The Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts, and many others.
Patchett has been accorded several awards and fellowships, including England’s Orange Prize, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Harold D. She has written books such as The Patron Saint of Liars (1992), The Magician's Assistant (1997), The Dutch House (2019), as well as the non-fiction books What Now? (2008), This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage (2013), and many more.Įducated at both Sarah Lawrence College and the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, her books have been both New York Times bestsellers and New York Times Notable Books. Ann Patchett is an American author of literary fiction and non-fiction books.
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