Water for Elephants: A Novel | Sara Gruen

Water for Elephants: A Novel | Sara Gruen | You will rethink how you think about life after this

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	Water for Elephants: A Novel Sara Gruen Algonquin Books, 2007 - 350 pages average customer review:based on 1502 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Awesome fiction!

I loaned this book to my best friend who reads non-stop and it is now one of her favorite books. I loved reading this book because I felt like I was apart of it. Very exciting and fun to read!

You will rethink how you think about life after this

This book was one of the best books that I've read in a long time. It's the story of Jacob Jankowski, a 23 Polish Medical Student at Cornell. He goes through trauma in his family and joins the circus briefly.
Sara Gruen wrote so vividly, and all her details of the 1920s depression era were so accurate and you can tell she really researched every detail of life on a circus train.

It also captures life as an elderly person, and as someone who has grandparents ripening in age, it truly makes you think of how long their life has been and that living in a nursing home just reliving your life and feeling inhuman and caged, is not a way to live. It opened my eyes so much.

The book captured me so much that I couldn't put it down. I highly recommend anyone to read this book. I also think it would make a great movie.

oh, and there are graphic sex scenes depicted and freakshow people, for all you weirdos out there.

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Discover an unknown modern classic

Let me be the 1,455th to tell you about this modern classic!

Poignant, funny, happy, sad, violent, tender, this circus story hits every emotion in perfect pitch and pacing, told through the eyes of an old man (not sure how old) abandoned (not quite) by his family (large and loving and dutiful) in a nursing home who is spurred to remembrance of his Depression years on the circus by the sight of a circus outside his nursing home room.

The title job is what kicks off the remembrances in a fit of anger, but the personality of Jacob Jankowitz grows stronger and younger in the telling and the present.

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AMAZING!

Brava to Sara Gruen. This story is intriguing, beautiful and exciting and so is its telling. Easily one of my favorite books of all time!

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