It’s like those circus posters of days gone by: ‘You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you won’t believe your eyes. Step forward ladies and gentlemen.’ And indeed you should.”

-Independant Weekly.

“The circus, the Great Depression, a complex elephant, equally complex love, the mists and twists of memory articulated in the utterly winning voice of a very old man who’s seen it all: these are the irrisistible elements of Water for elephants. Sara Gruen has written an utterly transporting novel richly full of the stuff of life”

-Robert Olen Butler, author of From where you dream

That’s why you should read it. ;)