Water for Elephants
Audio Book Description
Nonagenarian Jacob Jankowski reflects back on his wild and wondrous days
with a circus. It’s the Depression Era and Jacob, finding himself
parentless and penniless, joins the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular
Show on Earth. There he meets the freaks, drifters, and misfits that
populate this world. He introduces us to Marlena, beautiful star of the
equestrian act; to August, her charismatic but twisted husband (and the
circus’s animal trainer); and to Rosie, the seemingly untrainable
elephant Jacob cares for. Beautifully written, with a luminous
sense of time and place, Water for Elephants tells of love in a world in
which love’s a luxury few can afford.
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