TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gruen,Sara
TI  - Water for Elephants
SN  - 9781594132001
U1  - F GRU 
PY  - 2007///, c2006
CY  - Detroit, Mich.
PB  - Large Print Press
KW  - Circus performers
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Depressions
KW  - 1929
KW  - Circus animals
KW  - Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - FICTION / Romance / Historical
KW  - Authors, Canadian
KW  - Canadian fiction
N2  - When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, drifters, 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
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