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The Law of Similars by Chris Bohjalian
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The Law of Similars

by Chris Bohjalian

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A good enough plot and good enough characters rather boringly written. ( )
  echaika | Sep 21, 2009 |
Our 1st book read for book club. Starting Sept 2000
  CarolSchott | Feb 26, 2009 |
Interesting story about homeopathy, romance, and responsibility. I found the story a bit disjointed for the second half, but interesting enough to finish. ( )
  amaryann21 | Nov 16, 2008 |
A book based on an interesting justa-position between the law and homeopathy. The two major characters being practitioners of these fields. The subject was interesting but the narration failed to fully exploit the potential of the story. ( )
  peterannis | Apr 14, 2008 |
Wonderful story about a lawyer/widower with a child who falls in love with his homeopath who is responsible for another patient's death, and how they try to cover it up. One of those books whose characters stay with you. I didn't want it to end. (The plot is oddly similar to that of Midwives - makes me wonder if Bohjalian has some unresolved issues!) ( )
  bobbieharv | Mar 17, 2008 |
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In Chris Bohjalian's fine follow-up to Midwives, individual judgment and the unconventional again clash with the medical and legal forces of tradition. In rural Vermont, two years after his wife's sudden death, an exhausted state's attorney can hope for little but a quiet life with his 4-year-old daughter. Leland Fowler's only goal is a cure for the common cold--his own, that is, which has dragged on for months. As it turns out, his appointment with the town's only homeopath will set to rights his physical and emotional symptoms. At least for a while.

Alas, another of Carissa Lake's patients isn't quite so lucky. Despite her warning that Richard Emmons not go off his prescription drugs, he does exactly that. In fact, during an asthma attack, he takes the homeopathic law of similars--the belief that "like cures like"--to an entirely new level. This tragedy embroils Carissa in an investigation of her practice and forces Leland into a decision that is to alter not only her life but his:

Upstairs, my daughter slept. And for a long time we sat on the floor before the tree, neither of us saying a word, as I worked out in my mind exactly what I would have needed to prosecute this case if a summer cold had not lasted into the fall, and I had not met Carissa Lake. Once I knew, nothing seemed quite so hopeless, and I began to sketch aloud for her exactly what we would want to create in the morning, and exactly what we would want to destroy.
Chris Bohjalian is an artist of the small but seismic instant. As this gripping novel proves, he knows all too well the awful daring of a moment's surrender. --Siobhan Carson

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