Water For Elephants
By Sara Gruen
So for this book I
decided to jump had first into it without reading any reviews or even the
synopsis. It turned out to be a very
well written and beautiful story about love, hardships, and a circus. It’s the
great depression 1932, prohibition is in full swing, and like so many others a
young man has had his entire life torn into pieces and ends up wandering
straight into the adventure of a lifetime.
Jake Jankowski, the main character in our epic story, is distraught when
he is informed that both his parents have died in an automobile accident. After,
what we can only assume is a nervous breakdown while taking his final exams for
veterinary school; he walks out and continues until he cannot bear to go any
further. While resting near a train track as a train rumbles
up, and he decides to try to “hitch” a ride to the next town not realizing he
has jumped aboard a circus train. From
there he meets many characters who will forever change his life.

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