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Leaving Time (with Bonus Novella Larger Than Life)

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I haven’t read any of her books and went to an evening event with her speaking a few years ago which put me off completely, she seemed to business like about her writing! I also gathered stories about evidence of elephant cognition and the unbreakable bond of elephant relationships. Legend said the spot was in Saudi Arabia; that it was the source of a supernatural force; that it contained a book of spells to bring about world peace.

At the same time Jenna's dad was confined to a mental institution and Jenna went to live with her grandmother. Babies are allomothered, which means that they are cared for by all females in the herd, and older siblings get to practice their parenting skills before actually becoming moms. Together with the help from Serenity Jones who was a psychic and Virgil Stanhope a former detective, Jenna does all that she can to find the answers that she has desperately been trying to find in relation to her mother's disappearance. At the same time, those who demand ivory need to be educated about the reality of poaching -- many believe that an elephant can regrow a tusk, which is not true; the only way to get an elephant tusk is to kill the elephant.My sincere thanks to Ballantine Books for providing the e-galley of Leaving Time to be published October 2014. Jenna Metcalf was with her mother the night she disappeared in tragic and mysterious circumstances, but she remembers nothing. Then, she lay her tire down on her best friend’s grave, like a wreath, and left – almost as if she knew that Tina was the one who needed comfort, now. She is also the author, with daughter Samantha van Leer, of two young adult novels, Between the Lines and Off the Page . Elephants are among the few species in this world (including humans) that show cross-species empathy – they will help out another animal in distress even if there is no biological advantage.

Thirteen year old Jenna is on a quest to find her mother who disappeared under mysterious circumstances when she was only three.This book does not have a story worked around a moral dilemma, and there's no court room drama either. The cast, Jenna, the daughter, Alice, the mother, Virgil, a cop, and Serenity, a psychic, all play their part in taking us to a satisfying conclusion. Maybe it was because the silk lining inside my mother’s fur coat, the one she had inherited from her own mother, was made from an Indian sari and printed with elephants.

you can “adopt” an elephant, or make a donation in memory of an animal lover, or feed all the elephants for one day —no amount is too small, and all are so greatly appreciated. Despite these surface plots, the underlying theme of Leaving Time - the real meat of the story - is the incredible bond between mother and child (whether it be human or elephant) and what loss does to those left behind. Given it's been awhile, I was surprised to find Picoult has strayed from that tried and tested formula.

Moreover, elephants live in herds, so creating a "fake herd" of two of three elephants is much like throwing a human into a cell with a stranger and assuming they will be fast friends.

I don't have much knowledge about psychics or the ESP world in general, but I found this an interesting addition to the story. I feel as though I can't go into very much detail as it would be so easy to end up with a spoiler by mistake. It’s true that the bond between a mother and her child is unbreakable and I can attest to that wholeheartedly.

Serenity needs a strong presence to be able to communicate with the dead, so they go to spot in the elephant sanctuary that had a special meaning for Alice. I'd previously read the short story, Larger Than Life , that is linked to this, so it was a nice little introduction into the characters. They also share very deep and heartfelt secrets about love lost and found, about grief and memories. Despite their different backgrounds, Jenna, Serenity, and Virgil form a sort of unconventional family together.

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