Best-selling author Jodi Picoult thinks elephants are lucky when it comes to parenting—that's how she came up with the idea for her new novel, Leaving Time.
"I had three kids, my youngest is a daughter, she was getting ready to go to college and I was going to be an empty nester, and I was completely devastated by that thought," said Picoult in an interview with CBC's Deana Sumanac-Johnson.
"I happened to read an article in a magazine that said this amazing fact about the wild and the elephant herd: that in an elephant herd, mother and daughter elephants stay together their whole lives, until one of them dies. And I thought, that's so great, why don't we do that?"
Leaving Time focuses on a young woman, Jenna Metcalf, who tries to find her mother, Alice, an elephant researcher who mysteriously disappeared a decade ago
To believably portray the world of elephant herds, Picoult visited sanctuaries where the majestic mammals live, in both the United States and Botswana.
"I learned that they had these extraordinary powers of cognition and empathy and that they understood loss and I realized that if I was writing a book about being left behind, I could wrap it in a metaphor of elephants and kind of come up with a novel about how the people we love the most maybe never leave us," says Picoult.
In the video above, Picoult reads from her new novel, Leaving Time.
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