When Elephants Fly.

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when elephants fly.

 nancy richardson fischer.

Publisher  Harlequin Teen.

Publication Date: September 4,2018.

Genre: YA Contemporary.

Format|Pages: Hardcover|400.

 Source:  Goodreads|Library.

CONTAINS SPOILERS

T. Lily Decker is a high school senior with a twelve-year plan: avoid stress, drugs, alcohol and boyfriends, and take regular psych quizzes administered by her best friend, Sawyer, to make sure she's not developing schizophrenia.Genetics are not on Lily's side.



When she was seven, her mother, who had paranoid schizophrenia, tried to kill her. And a secret has revealed that Lily's odds are even worse than she thought. Still, there's a chance to avoid triggering the mental health condition, if Lily can live a careful life from ages eighteen to thirty, when schizophrenia most commonly manifests.



But when a newspaper internship results in Lily witnessing a mother elephant try to kill her three-week-old calf, Swifty, Lily can't abandon the story or the calf. With Swifty in danger of dying from grief, Lily must choose whether to risk everything, including her sanity and a first love, on a desperate road trip to save the calf's life, perhaps finding her own version of freedom along the way. 

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An incredible, breathtaking story about family, survival and hope.



There is always a book out there, which will hit you hard, break your heart. It’s also going to be a story that you will never forget, the one that is worth every single page. I had never read books by NANCY RICHARDSON FISCHER before, and when I came across WHEN ELEPHANTS FLY I knew I had check out, the title and the cover drew me, and I love books about animals, especially elephants. It wasn’t first book I read about elephants, but it was my favorite one. How can that title not have you curious? Plus, that cover, it’s mysterious, they were the two of first things that captured my attention. I wasn’t sure what to expect from this book since I never read book by this author. Only after few pages, I had a strong feeling that it would be a book that I wouldn’t forget. I was right. WHEN ELEPHANTS FLY was an astonishing story, the one that I know I would be returning to in the future. There wasn’t a single page that didn’t have my attention, that didn’t have me on the edge of my seat. I was blown away.



Lily, I liked her from the start. I can’t even begin imagine to go through what she had. To be almost killed by your mother when you were seven, to wonder if you going develop schizophrenia. I can’t even imagine living in that constant fear. Then witnessing an elephant mother almost killing her baby. It’s as if Lily couldn’t get a break. I feel as if that is one of the reasons that Lily connected with Swifty because she been there, and she knew the feeling of not being wanted by someone, being rejected. Don’t you love that name? it’s unique. Seeing the bonding moments that she had with Swifty, and you could tell that it wasn’t long before she started to care about calf. Otherwise she wouldn’t gone as far as she had, in order to rescue the calf. I feel as if calf bonded with Lily a bit, until he started to get sick. Seeing how health got worse, along with his mood, it broke my heart. I know that in a way, I bonded with Swifty through Lily. I was rooting for Swifty, for Lily. It was a heartbreaking story, at the same time, it was a story that is worth reading.



WHEN ELEPHANTS FLY is a story that will have you going through a lot of emotions. Not just during the story but afterwards too. I couldn’t get it out of my mind. Now, I need and go check out what else NANCY RICHARDSON FISCHER has written, because I fell in love with this story, and I am curious about others. I even recommended this book to a best friend of mine, because it touched me so much. Beautifully written, so vivid that you will feel as you are there along with Swiftly and Lily.



It was… delightful.