Recommended by Connie, Susie, Jo and Ellen

Ellen's review: Ann Patchett transported me to the jungles of the Amazon and left me there while I listened to this amazing book. I wasn't always comfortable, but I don't think I was supposed get too comfortable, considering the wide variety of bugs, slithering creatures and spear-throwing natives that shared this space with the American doctors engaged in a decades-long research project.

Dr. Marina Singh has been sent by her company from Minnesota to check up on the delayed project and find out how her colleague Dr. Anders Eckman died, in his recent trip to check up on the project. Marina encounters many obstacles in her attempts to penetrate the mysteries that are the Amazon and the legendary Dr. Annick Swenson, who is in charge of the research, is just one of them.

This book was so good and so completely took me into its creepy jungle setting, that I found myself coming to a new appreciation of our boring Midwest bugs and our predictable environment. Yet the Amazon holds many secrets for those willing to put up with fevers, bugs and snakes. This book confirmed for me that reading about this world is as far as I ever care to go into the Amazon. But what a trip it was!

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