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Jodi Picoult: Leaving Time". Nat Geo Live. National Geographic. December 1, 2014. Archived from the original on December 21, 2021 . Retrieved March 13, 2018. Desperate to find the truth, Jenna enlists two unlikely allies in her quest. The first is Serenity Jones, a psychic who rose to fame finding missing persons—only to later doubt her gifts. The second is Virgil Stanhope, a jaded private detective who originally investigated Alice’s case along with the strange, possibly linked death of one of her colleagues. As the three work together to uncover what happened to Alice, they realize that in asking hard questions, they’ll have to face even harder answers. For the record, Mayor Dimauro did continue to try to make life better for Morganetta. In 1979, after the demise of Forest Park’s resident polar bear, the facility closed and Morganetta was moved to the Los Angeles Zoo. Her home there was much bigger. It had a pool, and toys, and two older elephants. Massive Women's March Turnouts Prompt Change of Plans in D.C., Chicago". CBSNews.com . Retrieved April 21, 2017.

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. In 2016, Picoult was selected to be Princeton's Class Day Speaker before commencement. [13] Career [ edit ] 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. Please note this plot summary and some sections of the guide contain spoilers for a major plot twist.) The narrator for "Leaving Time", for the character 'Jenna', (13 years old ... bright and feisty), is by a terrific voice *Rebecca Lowman*. Rebecca was the same narrator I fell in love with in the audible "Annie on My Mind". ( another audiobook I highly recommend).

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I listened to this on on Audio and thought it was great. It is done with several different narrators: The mother Alice, her 13 year old daughter Jenna, and Serenity (the psychic who is featured in "Where There's Smoke"). Alice's chapters were fascinating. As I said with the prequel, I LOVE elephants and I found all the information given about these magnificent creatures fascinating. They are very intellectual and emotional animals, and the discussions about how they dealt with grief was heart wrenching. I later learned that some of the elephant stories were based on real life elephants. Another one of the narrators is Virgil, the detective who was at the scene ten years ago when the elephants at the sanctuary trampled and killed an Employee. This is when Alice vanishes from the hospital. Jenna hires Virgil and Serenity to help her through her journey to find answers. I absolutely loved this book! It is a wonderful story of love and respect, grief and loss plus the love between a mother and her child, be it elephant or human; the telling is shared between Jenna, Alice, Serenity and Virgil. This very moving and poignant story is full of mystery and intrigue, but the twist at the end of the book blew me away! Absolutely brilliant, and something I most certainly did not expect! Jodi Picoult has a winner with Leaving Time, in my opinion. Highly recommended. FOUR STARS! According to the official Goodreads rating system this means “really liked it!” I’m good with that, although I had my doubts and uncertainties going into this one. I allowed outside influences to shape some preconceived notions and expectations in my head about this book before I even flipped open the front cover. 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"? a b Moor head, Joanna (July 17, 2009). "My Family Values". The Guardian (interview). ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved April 21, 2017.

Geoff Hamilton and Brian Jones (2010), Encyclopedia of Contemporary Writers and Their Works, Infobase Publishing LEAVING TIME may be [Picoult’s] finest work yet and is sure to produce much discussion after reading it. a b "Jodi Picoult: 'Trump supporters need my book' ". The Guardian. December 23, 2016 . Retrieved June 29, 2020. Sullo, Michelle Tuccitto (January 14, 2012). "University of New Haven grads told to dream big". New Haven Register . Retrieved November 14, 2023. I started to write Leaving Time when I was in the process of becoming an empty-nester. My daughter Sammy was headed off to school. I was thinking a lot of how we humans raise our kids to be self sufficient enough to leave us – and how depressing it was for those who were left behind. That theme – of what happens to the people who are left behind – became what I wanted to write about. Then, I was reading something and learned that in the wild, an elephant mother and daughter stay together their whole lives until one of them dies. Given my frame of mind, it seemed so much more pleasant to do things the way elephants do. I began to dig a bit more about elephants, and their reaction to death, and what I uncovered became a metaphor for the novel.

Beth Moroney (November 8, 2018). "Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult". TAPinto . Retrieved August 14, 2021. Alex Awards". Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), ALA.org. July 30, 2007 . Retrieved April 21, 2017. National Writing Project Launches Writers Council to Draw Attention to the Importance of Writing". NWP.org . Retrieved April 21, 2017.

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 voiceDesperate to find the truth, Jenna enlists two unlikely allies in her quest: Serenity Jones, a psychic who rose to fame finding missing persons, only to later doubt her gifts, and Virgil Stanhope, the jaded private detective who’d originally investigated Alice’s case along with the strange, possibly linked death of one of her colleagues. As the three work together to uncover what happened to Alice, they realize that in asking hard questions, they’ll have to face even harder answers. Picoult, Jodi Lynn (1987). Developments (Undergraduate senior thesis). Princeton University. http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp0144558f674– via Dataspace. I really loved the story lines with the elephants. I give the elephants 5 stars, but I don't know enough about elephants to know how much of what Picoult writes is factual and how much is anthropomorphism. The blurb of the book speaks of this book being about the mother/daughter bond. I get that with the elephants - completely demonstrated with the examples from the elephant world. I'm guessing Picoult wanted the experiences of the elephants and of Alice/Jenna to be reflective of each other but it doesn't really happen. For us to believe in a bond between Alice and Jenna that transcends death we need to see that loving bond. Instead, we see Alice regularly dump Jenna on others, or leave her alone, so her mother can attend to the elephants or . The problem is we don't see Alice spend any quality time with Jenna or show that she loves her. We see far more love and concern for the elephants. 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!

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