Leaving Time: the impossible-to-forget story with a twist you won't see coming by the number one bestselling author of A Spark of Light

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Jodi Picoult is a pro with twisty surprise endings ... and she does it again in "Leaving Time". I'll let you think about the title! Tusk asked Jodi a few questions about her experiences with elephants while researching for Leaving Time. His YING....was a nice balance to the other female voices -YANG, though, and I did grow to like the old fart. His heart was as big as gold. Actually all the characters have redeeming qualities in this novel. Jenna was so afraid of being hurt, that she would push people away 'first'. Who hasn't experienced that?

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The story is told with skillfulness and elegance whilst the pacing kept me intrigued and the suspense almost killed me as I was captivated by Jenna’s unrelenting search for her mother. What was she going to uncover? Would she find Alice? Were all her questions finally going to be answered? Karen Campbell (November 9, 2014). " 'Leaving Time' by Jodi Picoult". The Boston Globe . Retrieved August 14, 2021. It does not matter who you are or what kind of personal relationship you’ve forged with an elephant: Come between her and her calf, and she will kill you."

Best-selling, reliably entertaining, and thought-provoking Picoult's newest multifaceted novel is redolent with elephant lore that explores the animals' behavior when faced with death and grief, and combines a poignant tale of human loss with a perplexing crime story that delivers a powerhouse ending. The moral of this story is that sometimes, you can attempt to make all the difference in the world, and it still is like trying to stem the tide with a sieve. This is when Jenna realizes she is actually dead, but caught in the middle of the world and spirit dimension. Virgil also clues in that he is a ghost. When he had failed to solve Alice's disappearance the first time, he tried to commit suicide, but didn't know it worked. All these years Jenna and Virgil thought they were alive. Both of them were able to move onto the spirit realm, after teaching Serenity that she hadn't lost her psychic gift. Alice goes into detail how "an elephant never forgets". Their memory is so good that if somebody hurt their young years before ... they would still hold a grudge against that person. It was so tender to hear Alice's voice describing the different ways a mother elephant protects her young. She didn't need to tell us that the elephant grieved in the same way human's do --- we FELT it loud and clear. Alice's voice

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This newest Jodi Picoult left me a little dazed and confused. Picoult used to be one of my sure bets for a great read and no one quite wrote like her. This being said, I'm not really sure what direction Picoult has been going recently. This is how, at age nine, I became an elephant advocate. After a trip to the library, I sat down at my kitchen table, and I wrote to the mayor of Springfield, MA, asking him to give Morganetta more space, and more freedom. Her fear of abandonment was real. She acted strong and capable on the outside ....but protected her tender spots.Janelle Griffith (March 27, 2016). "Jodi Picoult headlines LI Reads series". Newsday . Retrieved August 14, 2021. introducing me not only to the wonderful world of audiobooks ....(literally...as she gifted me two books), but to Rebecca Lowman .... ( always 'Annie' to me)... I loved the story, came to appreciate the inseparable bond between mother and daughter and learned a lot about the plight of elephants in the world today. Although this story follows Picoult’s usual central theme of human relationships and emotions, I wonder if a blending of mysticism and spiritualism in the mix incited the angry Goodreads mob. The story is a deep exploration of the love of a mother and daughter and Picoult skillfully analogizes the intense love an elephant matriarch has for her calves to bring home the point. Alice and Maura, Metcalf’s favorite elephant at the sanctuary and the one elephant that seemed to form a very strong, almost personal bond with Alice, share a tenacious and unbreakable love for their daughters even when thousands of miles separate them from physical touch and companionship. They also share very deep and heartfelt secrets about love lost and found, about grief and memories. The memory of an elephant? Turns out it’s a real thing. At the Elephant Sanctuary in TN, elephants reacted so badly to helicopters and planes that they had to institute a no fly zone overhead. The only helicopters most of these elephants would have ever encountered was 40-50 years prior, during the culls when they were captured and brought to the US.

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Jodi Picoult has done it again! A couple different storylines merging together told from multiple character perspectives (in true Picoult style!). An elephant sanctuary sets the stage for this book, and I immediately fell in love with the stories surrounding the elephants and their histories- some happy, some tragic. Jenna Metcalf is searching for her mother- as she disappeared one night when the elephants trampled and killed someone and Alice Metcalf went to the hospital and disappeared. Jenna ropes in Serenity Jones (psychic) and Virgil (detective) to help find her missing mom. The cast of characters was quite the motley crew of misfits, but I grew to love them all individually. A few of the threads were unnecessary for me like the mentally challenged husband/father, and the whole Nevvie story. What really brought this one up for me was the unexpected ending. I think my jaw hit the ground as I wasn't expecting it, and then become emotional relating the mother/daughter relationship to the elephants and their calves. With plenty of twists and a surprising ending, [Leaving Time] explores the grieving process and what happens when we cannot move on. LEAVING TIME may be [Picoult’s] finest work yet and is sure to produce much discussion after reading it. Jenna's quest to find out "what the hell happened to Jenna's mother? Did she abandoned Jenna, by just bolting.....was she kidnapped... was she dead or alive"?I was like ..."COME ON, *GRAMS*, ... aren't you going to help Jenna out"? And ..."what are you hiding *OLD WOMAN*,... wasn't it YOUR daughter who went missing too"? After ten years of her mother going missing, Jenna sets out to find her mother with a retired detective and psychic. [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] Explorers who went in search of the graveyard would follow dying elephants for weeks, only to realize they’d been led in circles. Some of these voyagers disappeared completely. Some could not remember what they had seen, and not a single explorer who claimed to find the graveyard could ever locate it again. Gideon confesses that there was an affair between himself and Alice, and when his wife, who had also worked with them, Grace, found out, she committed suicide. Serenity’s fake psychic readings are successful, she says, because people look for sense in the nonsensical. Do you agree or disagree? If a psychic reading brings someone comfort or helps them grieve, do you think it matters if the message is faked?