The Tusks of Extinction is a book about climate grief, and the stage of grief it lives in is Anger. Which is a fully justified emotion, after all: the Earth isn't just dying, it's being killed. Literally, in the case of poachers decimating elephant populations.
Some people are afraid of anger. Not me. I believe that if you love someone or something, and your beloved is injured or killed by deliberate action, then love and anger are the same feeling. If you love elephants, you must be at war with poachers.
This is a book about love, then. Love and war. Love and revenge. It's also about mind and body, memory and self, and how to know what side you're on.
I thought it was punchy and powerful; I liked it even better than I liked THE MOUNTAIN IN THE SEA. Its the day of the 2024 US election and my brain is fried from stress but. Naylor made me feel a lot better for the time it took to read this.
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