The White Bone

“A brilliantly inspired melding of research into the lives of African elephants and the creation of a distinctly original . . . alternative world.” —Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Review of Books In The White Bone , a novel imagined entirely from the perspective of African elephants, Barbara Gowdy creates a world whole and separate that illuminates our own. For years, young Mud and her family have roamed the high grasses, swamps, and deserts of the sub-Sahara. Now the earth is sc