Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen - This is the story of Jacob Jankowski, a 90-year-old nursing-home resident coming to terms with age and disability as seen through the lens of his past as a lonely young man during the Depression whose leap onto a night train landed him in the middle of a three-ring circus -- literally.
This was a quick, easy read that couldn't help but be fun. What's not to love about the down-and-dirty story of Carnival workers on a traveling circus, replete with a menagerie of big cats, camels, chimps and one big, tragic, lovable elephant named Rosie?
It's a simple story where the villians are villians and the heros are...well, human. Doesn't require too much thinking on the part of the reader -- just the kind of book to take to the beach or absorb after a long day at the office.
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