TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gruen,Sara
TI  - Water for elephants: a novel 
SN  - 1565124995
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Chapel Hill, NC
PB  - Algonquin Press, 
KW  - Circus performers
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Circus
KW  - Depressions
KW  - 1929
KW  - Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
KW  - Circus animals
KW  - Elephants
KW  - Parents
KW  - Death
KW  - Trainagles (Interpersonal relations)
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - gsafd
KW  - Love stories
N2  - A novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932. When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, grifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night stands in town after endless town. A veterinary student who almost earned his degree, Jacob is put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. It is there that he meets Marlena, the beautiful young star of the equestrian act, who is married to August, the charismatic but twisted animal trainer. He also meets Rosie, an elephant who seems untrainable until he discovers a way to reach her.--From publisher description
ER  -