Once you get past the first 100 pages, this book is nearly impossible to put down. The majority of the story takes place in the Amazon jungle with the Lakashi people. Scientist are there to study how women are giving birth into their seventies and hopefully develop a drug that will extend fertility in the western world. What they ultimately discover is something much more significant.The characters are fantastic! There's Milton, the always competent and suave driver. Dr. Swenson is the no nonsense genius scientist, who has some surprising secrets. She is a character you will love and hate, but ultimately respect and sympathize with. Easter is the deaf mute boy whom everybody loves. Our flawed narrator, Dr. Marina Singh, is brave and good and alternately both weak and strong.
For those people who like books that wrap up in a nice little package at the end, this is not that book. The events that transpire in the last 50 pages are heartbreaking. I’m still trying to file some of these events away in my mind, but I’m sure to be processing them for days to come.
