The next meeting of the Book Club will be on Monday, July 18th, at 7:00 pm at church. The book we will be discussing is "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen.
Set during the Great Depression, this novel is told in flashback by nonagenarian Jacob Jankowski who recounts the period he spent with a traveling circus.
When 23 year old Jacob learns that his parents have been killed in a car crash, leaving him penniless, he drops out of Cornell Veterinary School and parlays his expertise with animals into a job with the circus, where he cares for a menagerie of exotic creatures. He also falls in love with Marlena, one of the show's star performers—a romance complicated by Marlena's husband, the unbalanced, sadistic circus boss who beats both his wife and the animals Jankowski cares for.
Set during the Great Depression, this novel is told in flashback by nonagenarian Jacob Jankowski who recounts the period he spent with a traveling circus.
When 23 year old Jacob learns that his parents have been killed in a car crash, leaving him penniless, he drops out of Cornell Veterinary School and parlays his expertise with animals into a job with the circus, where he cares for a menagerie of exotic creatures. He also falls in love with Marlena, one of the show's star performers—a romance complicated by Marlena's husband, the unbalanced, sadistic circus boss who beats both his wife and the animals Jankowski cares for.
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