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The award-winning author of Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty has now written a playful and witty novel in which a single mother and her two teenaged daughters head out on an astonishing adventure and discover themselves in the process.
Ramona Ausubel’s The Last Animal features Eve and Vera summer vacationing in the Arctic with their mother for her scientific expedition. That is where they accidentally discover a perfectly preserved, four-thousand-year-old baby mammoth and things finally start to get interesting, setting off a surprising chain of events.
The women go rogue, making their way through Siberia to Iceland all the way to an exotic animal farm in Italy for the birth of the mini mammoth that could possibly change the world and in the process….this family.
The book has been described as taking the reader on a ‘wild, entertaining, and refreshingly different kind of journey, one that explores the possibilities and perils of the human imagination on a changing planet’. It also shares how a wondrous discovery can best be enjoyed by the whole family.
