Water for Elephants

Sara Gruen - 2006

The novel explores the depression-era circus world while going back and forth in time. With its spotlight on elephants, this romantic page-turner hinges on human-animal bonds. The book, told in flashback by nonagenarian Jacob Jankowski, a nursing home resident, recounts the wild and wonderful period he spent with a traveling circus he joined during the Great Depression

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