Elphie by Gregory Maguire

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/237715 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Elphie Author: Gregory Maguire Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini Format: mp3 Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins Release date: 03-25-25 Ratings: 4 out of 5 stars, 102 ratings Genres: Contemporary Publisher's Summary: Young Elphie is shaped and molded by the behaviors of her promiscuous mother, Melena, and her pious father, Frex. She suffers ordinary childhood jealousies when her sister, saintly Nessarose, and brother, junior felon Shell, arrive. She first encounters the mistreatment of the Animal populations of Oz, which live adjacent to but not intertwined with human settlements, haunted by a Monkey and receiving aid from Dwarf Bears. She thrashes through her first bruising attempts at friendship, a possible lifeline from her tricky family life.