State of Wonder occurs wholly inside Marina’s center of consciousness. And so Marina embarks, first seeking the top-secret Vogel-Lakashi research field station and then searching for Anders’ body. Anders’ widow, who finds her husband’s apparent death surrounded in mystery, also urges Marina to make the journey. When news filters back that Anders has died from some unnamed jungle fever, the bureaucrats then ask Marina to follow his footsteps to Brazil. The company sends her office-mate, Anders Eckman, on a quest to see what is delaying the hush-hush Lakashi research project.
researcher, works for Vogel Pharmaceutical. How can this happen? And how might a drug company profit from discovering the Lakashi secret?ĭr. The women of one small native tribe are getting pregnant, over and over again, throughout their long lives. The first part plunges the reader into a laboratory world of pharmaceutical research and drug development, while the heart of State of Wonder takes us into the Brazilian jungles where a team of scientists is hard at work. Ann Patchett’s novel, State of Wonder, posits just such a situation. And I can’t imagine wanting to purchase a drug that would make such ongoing pregnancy possible. It certainly never has occurred to me to want to be able to get pregnant until well into my seventies.
Truthfully, I never ever have wondered what it would be like to delay menopause forever.
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