When Peggy was taking care of her dying mother and wondering what would become of her after her mother was gone, she never imagined herself sitting with fake I.D. in a fancy rental car at the side of a dirt road in Texas, waiting for her comrades to torch a bank of computers in order to save the lives of a few long-limbed dancing birds with red heads. The transition from lonely, brilliant geek whose experiments in Artificial Intelligence are producing better and brighter bots to a member of Monkey House, a communal household that's trying to save the world, seemed to take place in the blink of an eye. But Peggy's not complaining. Suddenly she has friends, sexual partners, and a cat she's lost her heart to. Then comes the action in Texas, where everything's on the line-and nothing goes as planned. Set in an all-to-near future, The Last Elephant is peopled with unforgettable characters and poses crucial questions in subtle and complex terms.
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