"Expect miracles when you read Ann Patchett's fiction."--New York Times Book Review
Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett returns with a provocative and assured novel of morality and miracles, science and sacrifice set in the Amazon rainforest. Infusing the narrative with the same ingenuity and emotional urgency that pervaded her acclaimed previous novels Bel Canto, Taft, Run, The Magician's Assistant, and The Patron Saint of Liars, Patchett delivers an enthrallingly innovative tale of aspiration, exploration, and attachment in State of Wonder--a gripping adventure story and a profound look at the difficult choices we make in the name of discovery and love.
"[A] spellbinder from bestselling author Patchett[.][...] Thrilling, disturbing and moving in equal measures--even better than Patchett's breakthrough "Bel Canto" (2001)."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"In fluid and remarkably atmospheric prose, Patchett captures not only the sights and sounds of the chaotic jungle environment but also the struggles and sacrifice of dedicated scientists."--Booklist
"Patchett is a master storyteller who has an entertaining habit of dropping ordinary people into extraordinary and exotic circumstances to see what they're made of. [An] expansive page-turner...Patchett's fluid prose dissolves in the suspense of this out-there adventure...that readers will hate to see end."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"[A] superbly rendered novel[.][...]Patchett's portrayal is as wonderful as it is frightening and foreign. Patchett exhibits an extraordinary ability to bring the horrors and the wonders of the Amazon jungle to life, and her singular characters are wonderfully drawn. [P]owerful and captivating."--Library Journal (starred review)
"[A] thrilling new novel...[T]he world imagined in this novel is unusually vivid...Reading "State of Wonder" is a sensory experience, and even after it's over you'll keep hearing the sounds of insects, and your own head will still be hot."--MORE Magazine
"Outlandishly entertaining . . . [with] a brilliantly constructed plot."--Elle
"The large canvas of sweeping moral issues, both personal and global, comes to life through careful attention to details, however seemingly mundane--from ill-fitting shoes and mosquito bites to a woman tenderly braiding another woman's hair."--O, the Oprah Magazine
"An expansive page-turner . . . Patchett's fluid prose dissolves in the suspense of this out-there adventure . . . that readers will hate to see end."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Emotionally lucid. . . . Patchett is at her lyrical best when she catalogues the jungle."--The New Yorker
"This is surely the smartest, most exciting novel of the summer."--Washington Post
