![]() ![]() Soon, Jane and Helen hatch a plan to impregnate Helen’s pet elephant with a genetically modified embryo based on the baby mammoth’s DNA. Back home in San Francisco, Jane shares her discovery with Helen, a glamorous amateur zookeeper who lives with zebras and giraffes on her husband’s estate on Lake Como. Then the miraculous discovery of a baby mammoth preserved in ice brings them together. ![]() Since their father died, Jane has thrown herself into work, and the girls would rather be anywhere than Siberia. A research trip brings Jane, a recently widowed graduate student, to the permafrost of Siberia, along with her two daughters, Eve, 15, and Vera, 12. The Ice Age meets the Anthropocene in this gem from Ausubel ( Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty), centered on a scientist’s improbable attempt to revive an extinct species. ![]()
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