' (Kirkus Reviews (starred review)), A superbly rendered novel. . . . Patchett's portrayal is as wonderful as it is frightening and foreign. Nothing is as it seems, and the ending is as shocking as it's satisfying., Patchett makes the jungle jump off the page&This is Patchett's best effort since The Patron Saint of Liars and, yes, that includes Bel Canto, The Amazon setting is something Patchett does rather marvelously.â€¦ The book is serious, but also so pleasurable that you hope it won't end., 'A spellbinder from bestselling author Patchett. . . . Thrilling, disturbing and moving in equal measures'even better than Patchett's breakthrough Bel Canto. Patchett's last knockout pages proceed full-speed ahead, with more twists and turns and trachery than the Amazon River. Is there nothing the prodigiously talented Ann Patchett can't do?. ' (Kirkus Reviews (starred review)), Extraordinary.

, 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., An expansive page-turner . . . Patchett's fluid prose dissolves in the suspense of this out-there adventure . . . that readers will hate to see end., 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., 'A spellbinder from bestselling author Patchett.Thrilling, disturbing and moving in equal measures'even better than Patchett's breakthrough Bel Canto. A spellbinder from bestselling author Patchett. . . . Thrilling, disturbing and moving in equal measures-even better than Patchett's breakthrough Bel Canto.

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