A suburban family settles in for the weekend. It rains, and everyone is beset with the urge to sleep. Reality slips into a dreamlike state. Time becomes disjointed and repeats itself in odd ways, and the rainy weekend seems never to end. A flower garden grows to impossible proportions. A grandmother visits, one who has been dead for years, along with other relatives long deceased. Thus begins a haunting and phantasmagoric journey through dreams and memory that echoes with the reader long after the story’s end.

Elephantus is a work of surrealist fiction about parenthood and family, and about the grief and reassessment of one’s own life that results from the passing of older generations. The story explores the inner connections between time, perception, memory, consciousness, dreams, and myth through an unusual, baroque prose style that sidesteps the typical voice of most contemporary fiction.