Swenson had become uncommunicative about both the progress of her study and her whereabouts. Annick Swenson, a charismatic but despotic professor who, on the company’s bankroll, was developing a miracle fertility drug. Anders had originally been dispatched to Brazil to bring back news of Dr. Marina Singh, a medical researcher at a pharmaceutical company in Minnesota, is sent deep into the Amazon basin to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of Anders Eckman, her lab partner. “State of Wonder,” Patchett’s eighth book and sixth novel, is no less multinational in its cast of characters, or high-stakes in its plot. Patchett’s best-selling 2001 novel, “Bel Canto,” opened with a botched terrorist operation in a South American country, after which an American opera diva, a Japanese industrialist, a French ambassador, various Russian businessmen and their Marxist-Leninist guerrilla captors turned their long captivity into a peculiar sort of idyll. Ann Patchett’s most characteristic subject is the hell turned unlikely paradise, a kind of reverse “Lord of the Flies” in which a group of strangers, shipwrecked into a disaster beyond their imagining, manage nonetheless to create a peaceable habitat where love and decency prevail.
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