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From the best-selling author of <I>Midwives</I> comes a startlinglypowerful story of three people whose lives are irrevocably changed byillness, healing, and love.<P>Two years after his wife's sudden, accidental death, a Vermont deputystate prosecutor, Leland Fowler, finds that the stress of raising theirsmall daughter alone has left him with a chronic sore throat. Desperateto rid himself of a malady that has somehow managed to eludeconventional medicine, Leland turns to homeopath Carissa Lake -- whocures both his sore throat and the aching loneliness at the root of hissymptoms.<P>Just days after Leland realizes he has fallen in love with the firstwoman who has mattered to him since his wife, one of Carissa's asthmapatients falls into an allergy-induced coma. When Carissa comes underinvestigation, straight-arrow Leland is faced with a moral and ethicaldilemma of enormous proportions.<P>Set against the ongoing clash between conventional and alternativemedicine -- between what we know science can offer and the miracles thatalways seem to be just beyond our reach -- <I>The Law of Similars</I> isa haunting and deeply atmospheric tale.<P>Chris Bohjalian is known for the compassion and grace that mark hischaracters as well as for the sheer storytelling power that propels hisfiction. With <I>The Law of Similars</I>, he has offered something more:a page-turning examination of the fragile threads that hold peopletogether when the worst that can happen really does... and theunexpected and luminous ways we are made well. It is a remarkableachievement.

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