ALEX D DUCHENE
CREATIVE DIRECTOR, GRAPHIC DESIGNER & VISUAL ARTIST
A convergence of ancestral memory, personal survival, and rebirth.
March 4
Ebook Pre-Order (Amazon)
March 9
Hardcover / Paperback (Amazon)
Will be available on Amazon March 9, 2026.
On a flight home to Toronto, Deborah is reeling from the truth about her family: the half-brother she had never met. The revelations that come with meeting David force her to confront decades of silence surrounding her childhood trauma.
As buried memories resurface, Deborah begins to question not only her past but also her sense of self. Intertwined with this reckoning are lifelong mystical experiences she has dismissed as coping mechanisms, an uncanny 'knowing'. memories of places she has never visited, and a strange birthmark she shares with her sister.
When events reveal a centuries-old Jewish legend, Deborah travels to Spain in search of answers, returning with more questions than certainty.
Back in Canada, her father’s failing health and her growing relationship with her newly discovered brother compel Deborah and her sister to delve even deeper, opening a Pandora’s box of family secrets.
In the aftermath of October 7, Deborah is driven into Jewish advocacy and travels to Israel, where the legend reemerges. What she uncovers there reshapes everything she believed about herself.
By the journey’s end, Deborah understands her life as a convergence of psychological and mystical truths—an inheritance of trauma, survival, and rebirth. The Pink Elephant is a story about confronting hidden truths, reclaiming one’s narrative, and finding clarity through the very truths that once felt unspeakable.