NOVEL:📚Architect's Apprentice/TOUR:NYC Museum of Natl History-Secret Life of 🐘

Join Joanne at the Museum of Natural History in NYC to learn all about elephants at the Secret Life of Elephants special exhibit. We'll discuss the book, The Architect's Apprentice by Elif Shafak, featuring Chota, the 🐘elephant. Transportation to and from is on your own. Joanne is getting the tickets to the museum and exhibit, so read below for payment information.

🐘ADVENTURE: NYC Museum of Natural History
Special Exhibit: Secret Life of Elephants

We'll visit The Museum of Natural History, including the special exhibit "The Secret World of Of Elephants." Here is a partial description off the AMNH website:

How do elephants “hear” with their feet?
Use the 40,000 muscles in their trunks? Or reshape the forests and savannas they live in, creating an environment upon which many other species rely? The Secret World of Elephants reveals new science about both ancient and modern elephants, including elephants’ extraordinary minds and senses, why they’re essential to the health of their ecosystems, and inspiring efforts to overcome threats to their survival.

👯WHERE TO MEET: We will meet at the Rose entrance on W. 81st at 12:00 NOON. Your ticket will afford you general admission to the museum and to the Elephant exhibit for which I have reserved 12:30 timed entry.

💵FEE: Tickets are $31 for adults and $24 for seniors (60+).
HOW TO PAY: Venmo Joanne at @Joanne-McNally-1 using the friends and family option.
First Paid, first goes. Your ticket price is refundable only if I can resell the ticket.

🍔LUNCH: location TBD (pay on your own)

📚NOVEL: The Architect's Apprentice by Elif Shafak
Genre:

In her latest novel, Elif Shafak spins an epic tale spanning nearly a century in the life of the Ottoman Empire. In 1540, twelve-year-old Jahan arrives in Istanbul. As an animal tamer in the sultan’s menagerie, he looks after the exceptionally smart elephant Chota and befriends (and falls for) the sultan’s beautiful daughter, Princess Mihrimah. A palace education leads Jahan to Mimar Sinan, the empire’s chief architect, who takes Jahan under his wing as they construct (with Chota’s help) some of the most magnificent buildings in history. Yet even as they build Sinan’s triumphant masterpieces—the incredible Suleymaniye and Selimiye mosques—dangerous undercurrents begin to emerge, with jealousy erupting among Sinan’s four apprentices.

A memorable story of artistic freedom, creativity, and the clash between science and fundamentalism, Shafak’s intricate novel brims with vibrant characters, intriguing adventure, and the lavish backdrop of the Ottoman court, where love and loyalty are no match for raw power.

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