Sign-In
Cart
The Elephant Box
Paperback
Publisher Price: $9.99
Publisher: Little Studio Films
Published: Jan 31 2026
Pages: 102
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.21 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In 1980s Pittsburgh, Benito Beans Moretti is a man who's spent his life fixing problems-except the one that matters most. His beloved wife, Chicky, is slipping away to dementia, her memories dissolving like sugar in coffee. When Beans discovers a mysterious African puzzle box said to restore memory and longevity to whoever unlocks it, he becomes consumed with one final mission: to save the woman who saved him.
With his sharp-tongued grandson Carman and a rebellious young clerk named Leia, Beans sets out on a cross-country journey to a Philadelphia auction where the fabled Elephant Box will be sold. What begins as a desperate gamble becomes an odyssey through family, faith, and forgiveness-testing the bonds between generations and the cost of holding onto the past.
But Chicky's fading mind holds her own secret: a haunting act of love and rebellion that could shatter everything Beans believes he's fighting for.
From smoky Italian kitchens to glittering auction halls, The Elephant Box blends grit, heart, and magical realism in a deeply human story about memory, loss, and the moments that refuse to be forgotten.
Also in
General Fiction
Elizabeth Spencer: Novels & Stories (Loa #344): The Voice at the Back Door / The Light in the Piazza / Knights and Dragons / Stories
Spencer, Elizabeth
Hardcover
Anniversaries, Volume 2: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl, April 1968-August 1968
Johnson, Uwe
Paperback
Philip Roth: Novels 1973-1977 (Loa #165): The Great American Novel / My Life as a Man / The Professor of Desire
Roth, Philip
Hardcover
Selected Writings: Robert Musil: Young Torless, Three Women, the Perfecting of a Love, and Other Writings
Agee, Joel
Musil, Robert
Paperback
Before Gatsby: The First Twenty-Six Stories
Bruccoli, Matthew J.
Baughman, Judith
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Paperback