![]() ![]() ![]() Anders Eckman, a mild-mannered lab researcher, is sent to investigate.Ī curt letter reporting his untimely death is all that returns. Dr Annick Swenson’s work is shrouded in mystery she refuses to report on her progress, especially to her investors, whose patience is fast running out. When he tried again all he could say was, “It’s snowing.”Īmong the tangled waterways and giant anacondas of the Brazilian Rio Negro, an enigmatic scientist is developing a drug that could alter the lives of women for ever. When she saw him there at the door she smiled at him and in the light of that smile he faltered. Mr Fox had the letter in his hand when he came to the lab to tell Marina the news. ![]() ![]() Who even knew they still made such things? The single sheet had traveled from Brazil to Minnesota to mark the passing of a man, a breath of tissue so insubstantial that only the stamp seemed to anchor it to this world. The news of Anders Eckman’s death came by way of Aerogram, a piece of bright blue airmail paper that served both as the stationery and, when folded over and sealed along the edges, the envelope. This week I’m looking at State of Wonder by Ann Patchett, one of my TBR books on my Kindle and thinking of reading it next. Every Tuesday Diane at Bibliophile by the Sea hosts First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros to share the first paragraph sometimes two, of a book that she’s reading or planning to read soon. ![]()
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