Marina Singh receives news that Anders mysteriously dies. She then travels to Brazil to investigate his death and learn more about Dr. Swenson’s findings. Her trip brings many surprising discoveries.
SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: Last month, Ann Patchett spoke at Politics and Prose, a bookstore in Washington D.C. Here, she reads a passage where Marina Singh, two doctors and two tribe members, named Benoit and Easter, have a frightening moment together. Benoit has just lifted a huge Anaconda snake onto the group’s riverboat, deep in the Amazon forest.
ANN PATCHETT: “There was too much coiling and uncoiling for an accurate measurement but the snake appeared to be fifteen feet long, eighteen when it stretched. Benoit appeared to be five feet, five inches, and he was outweighed by as much as fifty pounds. The three doctors pressed away, screaming various invectives in an unhelpful language. Marina wanted to jump in the water and to run across the lettuce with the long toed birds, but who could say the snake didn’t have a family down there?
There was an odor none of them recognized, the smell of (a) furious reptile, an oily stench of putrid rage that worked its way into the membranes of their nostrils as if it planned to stay there forever. The back half of the snake whipped up and made itself a knot around Easter’s slender waist and wrapped and wrapped and at the moment its head swung past, Easter reached into the air, his hand a quarter of a second faster than the snake, and grabbed its throat just below the head, well above Benoit’s fist. Easter had caught the snake that Benoit had caught.”
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