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Praised as “an author of unusual clarity” from the New Yorker, National Book Award finalist Allegra Goodman has dazzled readers with her acclaimed works of fiction, including such beloved bestsellers whilst The Family Markowitz and Kaaterskill Falls. Now she returns with a bracing new book, at once an intricate thriller and a rich human drama occur the high-stakes environment of the renowned research institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Sandy Glass, a charming promotion-seeking oncologist, and Marion Mendelssohn, a real, demanding researcher, are co-directors of the laboratory at the Philpott Institute focused on cancer research and seriously looking for a grant. Both administrators and teachers of the youthful post-doctoral protégés, Mendelssohn and Glass need behavior and commitment in a competitive atmosphere where money is rare and outcomes evasive. Then when the tests of Cliff Bannaker, a postdoc in a mentality, start to function, the whole laboratory becomes giddy with unprecedented objectives.