The author is a white woman, but I felt she did a decent job of addressing Marina’s ethnicity. I think a mature high school student could read it, but there is quite a bit of adult content – I would definitely not give it to my students.
The leveling puts this as a middle school read, but it is clearly intended for adults. It was surprisingly gripping! There are so many points to discuss which are major spoilers, but I’m going to limit the spoilers here as much as possible. This was a free book from the library that I grabbed after forgetting my bag so I couldn’t read Hidden Figures on my break. The company wants to know what happened, and so does his widow. But Marina’s plain, comfortable world shatters when a letter arrives relating his death. She’s quite happy sitting in her small windowless lab running pharmacological tests, and her lab partner Anders Eckman was happy to go into the Amazon as long as he could take some side trips to photograph rare and unusual birds.
Marina Singh has no interest in going to Brazil. Best book of the year 2011 from ten different news sourcesĭr.
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