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The Only Harmless Great Thing

Written by: Brooke Bolander
Narrated by: Courtney Patterson
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Publisher's Summary

Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novelette 

Finalist for the Hugo, Locus, Shirley Jackson, and Sturgeon Awards 

The Only Harmless Great Thing is a heart-wrenching alternative history by Brooke Bolander that imagines an intersection between the Radium Girls and noble, sentient elephants. 

In the early years of the 20th century, a group of female factory workers in Newark, New Jersey, slowly died of radiation poisoning. Around the same time, an Indian elephant was deliberately put to death by electricity in Coney Island. 

These are the facts. 

Now these two tragedies are intertwined in a dark alternate history of rage, radioactivity, and injustice crying out to be righted. Prepare yourself for a wrenching journey that crosses eras, chronicling histories of cruelty both grand and petty in search of meaning and justice.

©2018 Brooke Bolander (P)2019 Tantor

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