Play Book Tag discussion

Leaving Time / Jodi Picoult
4 stars

Jenna is 13-years old and lives with her grandmother. Her parents ran an elephant sanctuary and on the night one of the keepers was found trampled (when Jenna was only 3-years old), her mother was also injured, then she disappeared. Jenna is now old enough to try, on her own, to find out what happened to her mother.

The story is told in alternating points of view, mostly from Jenna’s or her mother’s POV. Alice’s story starts with her elephant research on grief in Africa and there is so much interesting elephant research in these chapters. I loved learning about them. (There is an author’s note at the end that the elephant research is based on real research and real elephants, as I suspected.) The rest of the story was from Jenna’s POV, plus POVs of the two people she had helping her find her mother, a private investigator and a psychic. There is a big twist at the end

That sounds right up your alley!

Yup! It's those elephants... ! :-)

And I already know I like Picoult, though I only started reading her in the past few years.