This one I can sum up in four words: Couldn’t put it down. Water for Elephants is the incredible story of near-veterinarian Jacob Jankowski and the flea-bitten circus he found himself with.
I thought this book was fantastic. Imaginative, beautifully written, gripping, at once outrageous and realistic. Life in the circus is squalid, stunning and romantic. It can also be brutal and dramatic. And Gruen makes it hard to look away as events unfold.
I burned through it in two days which is record time for me in recent years, since I usually read books in small sips between other engagements. But I raced through Water for Elephants, and will totally buy Sara Gruen’s next book in hardback – high praise in my library.
- Here’s an excerpt, provided by the publisher.
- Author Sara Gruen’s Web site
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