Leaving Time: the impossible-to-forget story with a twist you won't see coming by the number one bestselling author of A Spark of Light

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Karen Campbell (November 9, 2014). " 'Leaving Time' by Jodi Picoult". The Boston Globe . Retrieved August 14, 2021.

Jodi Picoult · Leaving Time (2014) Jodi Picoult · Leaving Time (2014)

introducing me not only to the wonderful world of audiobooks ....(literally...as she gifted me two books), but to Rebecca Lowman .... ( always 'Annie' to me)... From that Time-Life card, I learned the basics about elephants. They were the largest land animals on the planet, sometimes weighing more than six tons. They ate 300-400 pounds of food each day. They had the longest pregnancy of any land mammal—22 months. They lived in breeding herds, led by a female matriarch, often the oldest member of the group. She was the one who decided where the group went every day, when they took a rest, where they ate and where they drank. Babies were raised and protected by all the female relatives in the herd, and traveled with them, but when males were about thirteen years old, they left—sometimes preferring to wander on their own, and sometimes gathering with other males in a bull group. This is another story (credit to author Jodi Picoult), that came vibrantly alive through 'all' the voices of the readers. ( ok, being 100% honest, I didn't care for the one 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.Explorers who went in search of the graveyard would follow dying elephants for weeks, only to realize they’d been led in circles. Some of these voyagers disappeared completely. Some could not remember what they had seen, and not a single explorer who claimed to find the graveyard could ever locate it again. I think by allowing us to 'feel' empathy for the elephant in this story ...( building deeper as the story unfolds)....it allowed us to get closer to ourselves. Funny how books do that. Ultimately this is a story about love.

Leaving Time Summary and Study Guide | SuperSummary Leaving Time Summary and Study Guide | SuperSummary

With plenty of twists and a surprising ending, [Leaving Time] explores the grieving process and what happens when we cannot move on. Also interspersed with the story are extensive passages about elephants, who are highly intelligent animals with close family ties. An elephant mother would never desert her family, unlike what Alice apparently did to Jenna. With her rich prose and descriptions, Jodi draws parallels between elephant herds and human families whilst skilfully demonstrating the emotional impacts created by an unseen umbilicus being torn away and I thoroughly enjoyed the way she switched between the perspectives of Jenna, Virgil and Serenity, along with Alice’s memories of her research and life, with the elephants providing a strong emotional centre. The moral of this story is that sometimes, you can attempt to make all the difference in the world, and it still is like trying to stem the tide with a sieve. Jenna meets up with another character at the very end of the book. (pp. 394–395) Were you surprised to see who that was? Why or why not?When we got to the zoo, I raced along the paths until I found myself standing in front of Morganetta the elephant. Leaving Time is a 2014 novel by American writer Jodi Picoult. It is the twenty-third novel written by the author. The first edition was published on October 14, 2014, by Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] Plot summary [ edit ] This is when Jenna realizes she is actually dead, but caught in the middle of the world and spirit dimension. Virgil also clues in that he is a ghost. When he had failed to solve Alice's disappearance the first time, he tried to commit suicide, but didn't know it worked. All these years Jenna and Virgil thought they were alive. Both of them were able to move onto the spirit realm, after teaching Serenity that she hadn't lost her psychic gift. Alice says that 98 percent of science is quantifiable, leaving 2 percent “that can’t be measured or explained. And yet that does not mean it doesn’t exist.” (p. 392) Do you agree or disagree? Can you think of examples from the book or from your own experience of something that fits into that 2 percent? 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!