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dragonflyeco's review
5.0
I received a review copy in turn for an honest review. To Follow Elephants is an enchanting coming-of-age story that switches between its main characters to build a breathtaking journey involving a young elephant, a teenager from the United States traveling to Kenya to look for his imprisoned father, and a young Kenyan woman studying wild elephants.
Rick Hodges' remarkable debut novel left me longing to visit the dry season of East Africa, where wild elephants, among other wildlife, freely migrate and are a part of the scenery and life of many people. It is a characteristic of eco-fiction that in fiction we include the nature around us, and Hodges succeeds. His soft prose-like chapters flip through the perspectives of a few individuals, but my favorite is the elephants' growing older and learning about First Grandmother.
Rick Hodges' remarkable debut novel left me longing to visit the dry season of East Africa, where wild elephants, among other wildlife, freely migrate and are a part of the scenery and life of many people. It is a characteristic of eco-fiction that in fiction we include the nature around us, and Hodges succeeds. His soft prose-like chapters flip through the perspectives of a few individuals, but my favorite is the elephants' growing older and learning about First Grandmother.
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