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Book Review of Water for Elephants

Water for Elephants
Water for Elephants
Author: Sara Gruen
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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Helpful Score: 1


Water for Elephants is a wonderfully written story that is easy to read yet very satisfying. The novel starts with the protagonist in an "assisted living" (NOT nursing home) at the age of "90 or 93" who can tell? Then we zoom to Jacob Jankowski as a 23 year old young man (who is unhappy about still being a virgin)- his parents die when he was studying to be a vet at Cornell, and soon after he finds that his family was on the verge of losing everything for having put him in university. His Father, a vet himself, has a soft heart and takes anything for payment - vegetables mostly, much to the chagrin of Jacob, who discovers such bills after gong through his Father's records. Very interesting look into this young man's life, struggles and the life and struggles of the employees and bosses of the old style circus which often keeps them captive, like their performing animals. must read.