Water for Elephants Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Memoir & Autobiography (2017) Ahmed assumed that the veil's

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and creative writing teachers from across the country

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Water for Elephants Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Memoir & Autobiography (2017) Ahmed assumed that the veil'sThe runaway international bestseller and beloved fiction classicOrphaned and penniless at the height of the Depression, Jacob Jankowski escapes everything he knows by jumping on a passing train and inadvertently runs away with the circus. So begins Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen's darkly beautiful tale about the characters who inhabit the less than greatest show on earth. Jacob finds a place tending the circus animals, including a seemingly