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Elephant Winter
Elephant Winter | Kim Echlin
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Sophie Walker is back from Africa to nurse her dying mother. Her mother's Ontario farm borders on "Safari"�a tacky tourist spot now deserted for the winter. From her mother's window Sophie sees not cows, or horses, but a group of Indian (…more)
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PLeonieSmith
Elephant Winter | Kim Echlin
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After something like 15 years, I still love this book.

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Elephant Winter | Kim Echlin

She shed her skin and came out raw and new.

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PLeonieSmith
Elephant Winter | Kim Echlin
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It has been about 15 years since I read Kim Echlin's Elephant Winter. There isn't much that I remember from it. I do remember how it made me feel.

I've picked up the book again. It's tiny. It is my first reread that isn't by Toni Morrison.

I missed this book. The writing is what I need right now

I'm on page 15 and I'm hooked.

I'll be sharing more of my reread experience here as I make my way through it.

PLeonieSmith One of the reasons I love this book is the pace at which their lives are lived. It has a rhythm that feels right. And naturally, it is achieved only in the presence of a crisis like the threat of death of the mother. That's not just true in books. It makes me a little sad to think of this. What we miss in the constant hustle of day to day living. 8y
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