The law of similars
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Two years after his wife's sudden, accidental death, a Vermont deputy state prosecutor, Leland Fowler, finds that the stress of raising their small daughter alone has left him with a chronic sore throat. Desperate to rid himself of a malady that has somehow managed to elude conventional medicine, Leland turns to homeopath Carissa Lake - who cures both his sore throat and the aching loneliness at the root of his symptoms.Just days after Leland realizes he has fallen in love with the first woman who has mattered to him since his wife, one of Carissa's asthma patients falls into an allergy-induced coma. When Carissa comes under investigation, straight-arrow Leland is faced with a moral and ethical dilemma of enormous proportions.Set against the ongoing clash between conventional and alternative medicine - between what we know science can offer and the miracles that always seem to be just beyond our reach - The Law of Similars is a haunting and deeply atmospheric tale.
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Bohjalian, Chris Author
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9781568957234
9781400032969
9781400032969
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