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The way to a cheating man's heart is through . . . an elephant?
Professional horse trainer Neelie Sterling somehow missed the fact that her veterinarian husband, Matt, was having an affair with his blonde, pretty business partner. Neelie often misses things. (When Matt originally told her he was getting a colleague to help with the practice, she thought he said collie—and Neelie likes dogs.) Now the blonde is saying she's pregnant, and Neelie's life is in a tailspin. But she sees an opportunity to patch up the holes in her disintegrating marriage when she learns that Matt is leaving for Zimbabwe to rescue a badly injured elephant. Foolishly optimistic, she joins the expedition.
On a dangerous, revealing, exhilarating trip through Africa, Neelie comes to learn a lot about herself as a woman and a wife. But it isn't until they return home with their pachyderm patient that her eyes are truly opened to what is going on around her. And with the help of a very large and very special animal, she may even discover how to love again.
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Chris Reder
reviewed Still Life with Elephant on March 17, 2009
Still Life with Elephant
My mom recommend this as a fun, light read couple of years ago so I really wanted to like it. I didn't.
I did like the writing of the author, but the story flopped for me.
The main character's wimpy victim personality and inability to hear correctly become annoying and unbelievable (how was she a highly successful psychiatrist when she cannot make out entire sentences in every other facet of her life? And how as a trained professional--and best friends with another psychiatrist--does she not get help for this issue that constantly interferes with and ruins relationships for her?).
In the end, the book to me never actually resolves anything, the deep connections with the animals fall flat and don't connect to the story as they should, and she is still as lost at the end as the beginning (and her hearing problem persists even through she supposedly conquers her trauma, so we continue to try to decode dialogue all the way along... tiring).
Sorry, Mom, but I would skip this one next time.
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