黑洞社区 Book Club

August 2023 | The Last Animal: A Novel

Wednesday, August 23, 2023
12:00pm ET

Students, Faculty, Staff, and Alumni are all welcome!

Registration is available until 2 days before the event. The Zoom link will be sent to the email address provided the day before the event.

Please join the 黑洞社区 Book Club for an online discussion of "The Last Animal: A Novel" by Ramona Ausubel. The Last Animal takes readers on a wild, entertaining, and refreshingly different kind of journey, one that explores the possibilities and perils of the human imagination on a changing planet, what it’s like to be a woman in a field dominated by men, and how a wondrous discovery can best be enjoyed with family. Even teenagers. (Taken directly from “The Last Animal: A Novel” by Ramona Ausubel.)

Borrow the book, ebook, or audiobook through your local library!

ABOUT THE BOOK

Teenage sisters Eve and Vera never imagined their summer vacation would be spent in the Arctic, tagging along on their mother’s scientific expedition. But there’s a lot about their lives lately that hasn’t been going as planned, and truth be told, their single mother might not be so happy either.

Now in Siberia with a bunch of serious biologists, Eve and Vera are just bored enough to cause trouble. Fooling around in the permafrost, they accidentally discover a perfectly preserved, four-thousand-year-old baby mammoth, and things finally start to get interesting. The discovery sets off a surprising chain of events, leading mother and daughters to go rogue, pinging from the slopes of Siberia to the shores of Iceland to an exotic animal farm in Italy, and resulting in the birth of a creature that could change the world—or at least this family.

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