Finished reading: Entheóphage by Drema Deòraich 📚
I bought it from the local (Virginia) author last year at Convivial. It’s now at 4.8 on Goodreads, with one review saying “Michael Crichton meets ecofiction in this scarily plausible medical thriller.” There is some Andromeda Strain but it didn’t quite land the plausible for me - though I loved the biology details along the way. Also, my thrill was muted by knowing up front the pandemic will spread. The protagonists Drs. Nadine Parker and Isobel Fallon are well-developed, and Kyn’s family is delightful, but their funders and bosses felt flat. The sudden ending artfully suggests how the open plots will resolve long-term, yet leaves the details to your imagination.
We put up with a great deal of environmental damage because it is far away. The book asks how that would change if our children literally felt it. The ending, I think, suggests it would take more.
A good first novel - I would definitely consider one of her later ones.