A really well-written and well-plotted novella that probes questions on how we form our sense of self, the role of memory, the ethics of de-extinction efforts, and moral quandaries in conservation. We follow Damira, who was once a passionate elephant conservationist and is now the matriarch of a mammoth herd thanks to her consciousness being scanned and placed in a mammoth's brain, as she teaches mammoths how to be mammoths while also killing the poachers entering the preserve. The book has two human perspectives, a young and reluctant poacher and the husband of a man who paid a ton of money to legally hunt mammoths. Again, it's tightly plotted, and I really liked the look into Damira's mind as she slowly becomes more mammoth as her mental schema begins to match her new body.