When Elephants Fly, Nancy Richardson Fischer
When Elephants Fly, Nancy Richardson Fischer
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When Elephants Fly

Author: Nancy Richardson Fischer

Narrator: Caitlin Davies

Unabridged: 9 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/04/2018

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

Don’t miss one of the most heartwarming young adult novels of the year. Perfect for fans of Water for Elephants, Wonder and All the Bright Places, When Elephants Fly shows that how we choose to live our lives matters, and that there are some battles worth fighting even if it means losing yourself.

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.

About 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.


Reviews

بدون مقدمات تصارحنا البطلة في مستهل الرواية بمأساتها. في عيد ميلادها الثامن عشر تعرف "لي لي" أن الوحش الذي خافته طوال عمرها قد أصبح على بُعد خطواتٍ منها. وفي محاولة عبثية منها للمقاومة، تضع خطة طويلة المدى لإثنى عشر عاما مقبلة، ستتفادى فيها العلاقات والمشروبات المنبهة والأطعمة الدسمة والسكريات والضغ......more

This book was great. I didn't expect to like it so much! It was beautiful but heartbreaking. I'm not much of a contemporary reader but I love elephants, and like the main character, my mom is schizophrenic. Certain parts hit closer to home than I was prepared for.......more

Goodreads review by Heather

Such a GOOD book.....I laughed and I cried. Unusual story and so well written! Loved, loved, loved this book. Definitely recommend it! I started this book and could not put it down.......more

Goodreads review by Jenna

"The only promise with schizophrenia is that there's both hope and despair." T. Lily Decker is an 18 year old girl living with a fear that I can't even begin to relate to - the fear that she, like most other women in many generations on her mothers side of the family, will develop schizophrenia. Ins......more