Alex Lasker

"The Memory of an Elephant" is an epic saga told by an aging African elephant as he makes a last, perilous journey to find the humans who rescued him as an orphan some fifty years ago. Interwoven with his narrative are the tumultuous lives of the family who raised and then lost him: a famed hunti...

Fifty years later, a man is still haunted by the mysterious drowning of an innocent fellow student in the local river. Set at a New England prep school at the dawn of the '60s, the narrator recounts, in a wonderfully singular voice, how he got to the bottom of what happened. Because he knew it ...