WATER FOR ELEPHANS By Sara Gruen [Review]
Orphaned during the Great Depression, twenty-three year old Jacob Jankowski runs away from veterinarian training at Cornell to join the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth; a traveling circus. It’s there he falls in love with Marlena, a horse performer and wife of abusive animal trainer, August. The story is narrated by Jacob 70 years after his time on the circus, when he’s ninety-three [...]
