Info about the Author

The book was about mother-daughter relationships and spirits/the supernatural, but sometimes it felt like it was about elephants. The amount of information about elephants is astonishing and seems to be true and researched, though I can't verify all of it. Here is an interview with the author while she talks about her research process. Do you guys think all the information and background on elephants helped the book or took away from the story? I found it interesting for the most part, but maybe it was a little overkill, like when it talked for about 3 chapters about Maura's various thoughts and actions and history as an elephant.