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    The Gaze

    The Gaze

    Elif Shafak

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    From award-winning writer Elif Shafak, the Orange Prize long-listed author of The Forty Rules of...

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State of Wonder
State of Wonder
Ann Patchett | 2011 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry
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"Set in the Amazonian rain forest. It’s gothic and funny and strange and profound and outrageous. A female “Heart of Darkness.” Marina, a 42-year-old research scientist from Minnesota goes in search of her formidable old mentor, who has disappeared researching the women of a certain Amazonian tribe who stay fertile into their 80s from eating the hallucinogenic bark of a magical tree. As well as everything else, it’s an exploration of what it is to be a woman who’s getting older. And it makes that particular state seem more wonderful than it usually seems"

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