Neelie reluctantly returns to her life back in the States with her ex-boyfriend, ex-husband, an ex-house, and an ex-horse, and with the help of her new friend, Diamond-Rose, tries to raise funds to save an elephant targeted for execution in Zimbabwe.
An Inconvenient Elephant
β Scribed by Judy Reene Singer
- Publisher
- HarperCollins;Harper Paperbacks
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 179 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Review
A reeling, contagious story of hope and interspecies empathy. (Publishers Weekly )
Product Description
From the author of Still Life with Elephant comes the story of one woman and her quest to save a majestic animal.
After a year spent caring for baby elephants in Africa, Neelie Sterling is preparing to return to the States and a life filled with exesex-boyfriend, ex-husband, ex-house, ex-horse. But she is leaving behind some unfinished business in Zimbabwe: a very special elephant targeted for execution. With the help of her new friend Diamond-Rose Tremaine, an eccentric safari operator, Neelie manages to buy some time for the imperiled pachyderm, knowing that when she lands in New York they'll need to raise funds for his rescue.
Once they're home, everything becomes a struggle. Neelie and Diamond-Rose now must relearn how to survive in an urban jungle of table manners and real beds while coping with the overbearing affections of Neelie's family. Harder still, Neelie desperately needs the help of her wealthy conservationist ex-boyfriend, Tom, to save the magnificent creatureand swallowing her pride just might be the biggest challenge of all.
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