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The runaway international bestseller by “the must-read author
of summer” (Ottawa Citizen)
Orphaned and penniless at the height of the Depression, Jacob
Jankowski escapes everything he knows by jumping on a passing train—and
inadvertently runs away with the circus. So begins
Water for Elephants,
Sara Gruen’s darkly beautiful tale about the characters who inhabit the
less-than-greatest show on earth.
Jacob finds a place
tending the circus animals, including a seemingly untrainable elephant named
Rosie. He also comes to know Marlena, the star of the equestrian act—and wife of
August, a charismatic but cruel animal trainer. Caught between his love for
Marlena and his need to belong in the crazy family of travelling performers,
Jacob is freed only by a murderous secret that will bring the big top down.
Water for Elephants
is an enchanting page-turner, the kind of book that creates a world that engulfs
you from the first page to the last. A national bestseller in Canada and a
New York Times bestseller in the United States, this is a book destined to
become a beloved fiction classic.
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