Desire

By Lindsay Ahl

Subjects: American fiction, Women, Mothers and daughters, fiction, Child witnesses, Fiction, suspense, Fiction, Africa, fiction, Americans, Ivory industry, Mothers and daughters

Description: In 1975 the price of ivory was on the rise, Bob Dylan released a seminal album, and nine-year old Elena Monroe witnessed a brutal murder in the Kenyan river valley. Sixteen years later, Elena must journey from Albuquerque to Africa before her increasingly unreliable and volatile memories unravel her ties to her mother and cause her to lose the man she loves.