In a nutshell (although it needs to be a big nut-coconut? –to contain this plot), the novel involves an expedition into the Brazilian jungle by Dr. But based on Bel Canto, I was extremely primed for State of Wonder. In all honesty, I can remember almost nothing about Truth and Beauty, which says more about my memory than the work itself.
I also read Truth and Beauty, her memoir about her friendship with Lucy Grealy, who herself wrote an amazing memoir called Autobiography of a Face. It was for me a spell-binding novel of beauty, compassion, and passion, written with a masterful third person omniscient narrator. Over the course of the siege the terrorists and hostages forge relationships of friendship and love, and if that sounds unlikely, so be it. I had truly loved Bel Canto, her beautiful, amazing novel about a group of terrorists who take hostage international guests at a birthday party in South America. I had wanted to love it and I expected to love it.
State of Wonder, the new novel by Ann Patchett, is not so wonderful.
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