When Elephants Fly
Written by Nancy Richardson Fischer
Narrated by Caitlin Davies
5/5
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About this audiobook
T. Lily Decker is a high school senior with a twelve-year plan: avoid stress, drugs, alcohol and boyfriends, and take regular psych quizzes administered by her best friend, Sawyer, to make sure she’s not developing schizophrenia.
Genetics are not on Lily’s side. When she was seven, her mother, who had paranoid schizophrenia, tried to kill her. And a secret has revealed that Lily’s odds are even worse than she thought. Still, there’s a chance to avoid triggering the mental health condition, if Lily can live a careful life from ages eighteen to thirty, when schizophrenia most commonly manifests.
But when a newspaper internship results in Lily witnessing a mother elephant try to kill her three-week-old calf, Swifty, Lily can’t abandon the story or the calf. With Swifty in danger of dying from grief, Lily must choose whether to risk everything, including her sanity and a first love, on a desperate road trip to save the calf’s life, perhaps finding her own version of freedom along the way.
Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.
Nancy Richardson Fischer
Nancy Richardson Fischer is a graduate of Cornell University, with children’s, teen and adult titles to her credit, including Some Of It Was Real and The Book Of Silver Linings (PRH/Berkley) under the name Nan Fischer, When Elephants Fly and The Speed Of Falling Objects (HarperCollins/Inkyard Press), Star Wars titles for Lucas Film and numerous athlete autobiographies, such as Julie Krone, Bela Karolyi and Monica Seles. She lives in the Pacific Northwest.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great book, great story, great sacrifice. I definitely recommend it.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Amazing. Absolutely amazing! A must read/listen you won’t be disappointed.