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The Shadow Elephant:

By Nadine Robert & Valerio Vidali

A Tender Illustrated Fable About What It Takes to Unblue Our Sorrows and Lighten the Load of Our Heaviest Emotions

In praise of that quiet, nonjudgmental place of permission where all healing begins.

A BOOK REVIEW BY MARIA POPOVA

Caravaggio’s ‘remarkable’ Saint Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy, c1595.

© Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

Caravaggio’s ‘remarkable’ Saint Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy, c1595.

© Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

Not a smile. Not a sound. The elephant listened attentively, but remained in the shadows.