Jacob Jankowski is over 90 years old and living in a nursing home. Excitement is mounting as his fellow residents watch a circus setting up across the street. Jacob begins reminiscing about his life in the circus while in his early twenties. The story goes back and forth between his present day life in the nursing home and his time with the circus during the Great Depression. It is a wonderful true-to-life novel that immerses the reader in the nomadic life of a circus. The treatment of the circus animals and some of the circus workers is a little disconcerting, but overall the book was always interesting and I hated to put it down.
[This title was the July selection of the Bookies, the book club that meets at the Adrian Public Library on the second Thursday of each month. New members always welcome.]
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