Marina - is anyone this annoyingly naive? What was up with all the older man/younger woman couples? Anders is alive! And we can trade the abducted child for him. Fox and one of the creepy Australians come to the jungle too! Oh wow, a party! other random doctors think everything is awesome AND WHY SHOULDN'T THEY? NOW DO MINE." (Insert dramatic music and commercial break) She's like the matriarch on the soap operas who are always dropping the bad news.
Swenson abducts children, moralizes constantly, keeps 18 million secrets and is pregnant at 73 (and - an extension of this - experiments on herself in the jungle. Lakashi have lots of babies, are mostly immune to malaria, but are not a gigantic population. a creepy Australian couple guards the gates? what /was/ this? it was so random and weird and fleeting American researcher dead in the jungle and his colleague goes to Brazil to find out more - REALLY? My pet peeve is when authors play fast and loose with characters and established world facts in order to advance plots. The book would head in one direction for a while, then veer wildly in another.
The characters were weak and hard to identify with, the plot seemed like something of a time past (yet wasn't), and the outcome of it all was ridiculous. In 2012, Patchett was on the Time 100 list of most influential people in the world by TIME magazine. In 2010, when she found that her hometown of Nashville no longer had a good book store, she co-founded Parnassus Books with Karen Hayes the store opened in November 2011. It was also there that she wrote her first novel, The Patron Saint of Liars. She later attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where she met longtime friend Elizabeth McCracken. Following graduation, she attended Sarah Lawrence College and took fiction writing classes with Allan Gurganus, Russell Banks, and Grace Paley. Bernard Academy, a private, non-parochial Catholic school for girls run by the Sisters of Mercy. the stable window that opens out into the imagination." If asked if she could go any place, that place would always be home. Patchett said she loves her home in Nashville with her doctor husband and dog.
She moved to Nashville, Tennessee when she was six, where she continues to live. Patchett was born in Los Angeles, California.
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