Brooke Bolander unleashes a heart-wrenching alternate history about the disastrous clash between human nature and elephant nature.



"Devastatingly powerful. Bolander gives voice to the voiceless." -Helen MacDonald In the early years of the 20th century, a group of female factory workers in Newark, New Jersey slowly died of radiation poisoning. Around the same time, an Indian elephant was deliberately put to death by electricity in Coney Island. These are the facts. Now these two tragedies are intertwined in a dark alternate history of rage, radioactivity, and injustice crying out to be righted. Prepare yourself for a wrenching journey that crosses eras, chronicling histories of cruelty both grand and petty in search of meaning and justice.