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)...

Jodi Picoult · Leaving Time (2014) Jodi Picoult · Leaving Time (2014)

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!

About Leaving Time

I think by allowing us to 'feel' empathy for the elephant in this story ...( building deeper as the story unfolds)....it allowed us to get closer to ourselves. Funny how books do that. Ultimately this is a story about love. 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. 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. I don't even really know what to say about this novel.... I think my jaw is still somewhere on the floor....

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Emily Kert (August 15, 2014). "Review of NH Author Jodi Picoult's Latest Novel Leaving Time". New Hampshire Magazine . Retrieved August 14, 2021. Alice says that 98 percent of science is quantifiable, leaving 2 percent “that can’t be measured or explained. And yet that does not mean it doesn’t exist.” (p. 392) Do you agree or disagree? Can you think of examples from the book or from your own experience of something that fits into that 2 percent? 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"? Tusk asked Jodi a few questions about her experiences with elephants while researching for Leaving Time. 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]

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Maybe I would have listened. But maybe, too, I would have just closed my eyes. Maybe I would have tried to memorize the smell of bug spray on my mother’s skin, or the way she absent-mindedly braided my hair, tying it off on the end with a stalk of green grass. 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. But ten years is a long time and trying to piece together information from that long ago is proving to be a challenge for everyone. Will Jenna find out what really happened to her mother all those years ago or will she be left with unanswered questions?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. Also interspersed with the story are extensive passages about elephants, who are highly intelligent animals with close family ties. An elephant mother would never desert her family, unlike what Alice apparently did to Jenna. In the end I thoroughly enjoyed this book, shedding a few tears along the way. Actually I grew to love and fully appreciate the story the more I thought about it and connected more of the dots in the days after finishing it. The story is told alternately through the voices of Jenna Metcalf, Serenity Jones, Virgil Stanhope and Alice Metcalf. The glue that binds this literary journey is motherly love for her daughter and ... When we got to the zoo, I raced along the paths until I found myself standing in front of Morganetta the elephant. In retrospect I am sure my mother got tired of hearing about elephants. Maybe that is why, one Saturday morning, she woke me before the sun came up and told me we were going on an adventure. There were no zoos near where we lived in Connecticut, but the Forest Park Zoo in Springfield, Massachusetts had a real, live elephant—and we were going to see her.