Orphaned, Eliot Schrefer
Orphaned, Eliot Schrefer
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Orphaned

Author: Eliot Schrefer

Narrator: Lauren Ezzo

Unabridged: 4 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/25/2018

Synopsis

Snub is a young gorilla, living in the heart of what will eventually be known as Africa. She is jealous of her mother's new baby and restless in her need to explore. When a natural disaster shakes up her family, Snub finds herself as the guardian of her young sibling...and lost in a reshaped world. Snub may feel orphaned, but she's not alone. There are other creatures stalking through the woods-a new form of predator, walking on two legs. One of their kind is also orphaned and is taken in by Snub. But the intersection of the human world and the gorilla world will bring both new connections and new battles. In his boldest work yet, two-time National Book Award finalist Eliot Schrefer shows us a riveting, heartbreaking early encounter between ape and man-told from the ape's point of view. It is a journey unlike any other in recent literature.

About Eliot Schrefer

Eliot Schrefer is the New York Times bestselling author of many books for kids and teens, including The Darkness Outside Us and its sequel, The Brightness Between Us, as well as Charming Young Man, Endangered, and Queer Ducks (and Other Animals): The Natural World of Animal Sexuality. His books have twice been named finalists for the National Book Award in Young People’s Literature and have garnered a Printz Honor, a Stonewall Honor, and the Green Earth Book Award. He is on the faculty of the creative writing MFA programs at Hamline University and Fairleigh Dickinson University and lives with his husband in New York City. Visit him online at eliotschrefer.com. 

Reviews

Goodreads review by Philip

Excellent and surprisingly touching story, very much in the mold of Robert Bakker's equally good Raptor Red, except that it's told from the point of view of a Paleolithic gorilla rather than a Jurassic velociraptor. That said, not a lot of plot per se - but what do you expect? This is a story about......more

Goodreads review by Meredith

This is very, very different from the other Ape books by Eliot Schrefer, but if you're worried that it won't make you cry because humans mostly suck so bad, never fear! I full on sobbed at work because of how depressed it made me. Why can't human beings be more like gorillas-only take what we need,......more

Goodreads review by Mindy

This imagined prehistory is undeniably the crowning achievement in Schrefer’s ape quartet, at once brimming with hope and loss, love and cruelty, constantly challenging the reader to question—in 600,000 years—how much and how little we’ve evolved. My full review is posted at Ecolitbooks.com.......more

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