‘The Elephant of Belfast’ explores love, loyalty, and tragedy
It was the assignment of a lifetime for an aspiring young zookeeper: Helping guide a young elephant from a moored steamship at the Belfast docks to her new home at the zoo.
From that first unusual scene, we’re enveloped in the personalities and the world of “The Elephant of Belfast,” S. Kirk Walsh’s breathtaking novel set in World War II. In the emotional journeys that follow, Walsh explores love,
