Water for elephants / Gruen, Sara

During the Depression, drifter Jacob Jankowski joins a traveling circus, cares for its menagerie, and falls in love with the wife of a cruel animal trainer.

Ninety-year-old Jacob Jankowski finds himself haunted by memories of his past in the circus and the freaks, exotic animals, and other people he encountered as a performer.

Ninety-year-old Jacob Jankowski is haunted by memories of his life as a young veterinarian for a circus during the Great Depression, recalling the bond he developed with Rosie, the show's troubled elephant, and Marlena, the star of the equestrian act who was married to August, who the head animal trainer.

Ninety-year-old Jacob Jankowski finds himself haunted by memories of his past in the circus and the freaks, exotic animals, and other people he encountered as a performer.

Ninety-year-old Jacob Jankowski finds himself haunted by memories of his past in the circus and the freaks, exotic animals, and other people he encountered as a performer.