Elephant Winter

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“Intimate, sensual, and language-loving, every line gives off light, heat, scent. . . . The prose is transparent, elegiac. . . . The end comes too soon. . . . Elephant Winter is enormously engaging, unusual enough to catch the popular imagination, and well and wisely enough written to endure.” –Quill & QuireSophie Walker is back from Africa to nurse her dying mother. Her mother’s Ontario farm borders on “Safari”—a tacky tourist spot now deserted for the winter. From her mother’s window Sophie sees not cows, or horses, but a group of Indian elephants playing gracefully in the snow. Elephant Winter is a novel about the forms of intimacy, from the turbulent love between a mother and daughter to the fulfilling bond between Sophie and the elephants.

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