Review — Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen

Jacob Written by Sara Gruen, Water For Elephants starts with a death and ends with a new life (of sorts). The narrator,  Jacob Jankowski, drops out of Cornell University his senior year, hops a freight train, and (yes) joins the circus. The name of the book is "lifted" from an attorney in an assisted living facility who claims he used to carry water for …

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