The Tusks of Extinction hurt me, inspired me, and taught me in less than 100 pages. Through the lenses of an elephant-expert turned mammoth matriarch, a boy on a hunt with his father, and a man who can’t rise above his wealth, Nayler’s conservationist novella reaches into depths of human empathy and bares it all for examination. Nothing so short has ever made me cry so much.
The Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler, (List Price: $26.99, Tordotcom, 9781250855527, January 2024)
Reviewed by Isabel Agajanian, Oxford Exchange in Tampa, Florida