Reviews
The Sea Elephants
- By Ellie Eberlee
A Review of The Sea Elephants by Shastri Akella (Flatiron Books, 2023)
“Once upon a time,” reads sixteen-year-old protagonist Shagun in a book of Hindu myths at the outset of Shastri Akella’s earnest and aching debut novel, The Sea Elephants, “the gods took away the first ancestor of the sea elephants, coveting him for his exceptional...