I typically have trouble enjoying short stories but I really liked this collection. I somehow missed that it was in short stories form when I picked this book up but the stories are so good, I kept going with it. The only bummers I had -- 1) some of the stories are only barely tied to the circus th...
This book is about the fictional "Great Porter Circus" which was based on the real Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus that had their winter quarters in Peru, Indiana. Its a series of short stories that intertwine with each other across three generations of people who were associated with Porter's Circus.I fou...
Having just read Water for Elephants, this study of a circus from the Depression was too dry.
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