Water for Elephants is the story of Jacob's life with this circus.
Sara Gruen spares no detail in chronicling the squalid, filthy, brutish
circumstances in which he finds himself. The animals are mangy, underfed
or fed rotten food, and abused. Jacob, once it becomes known that he has
veterinary skills, is put in charge of the "menagerie" and all its ills.
Uncle Al, the circus impresario, is a self-serving, venal creep who slaps
people around because he can. August, the animal trainer, is a certified
paranoid schizophrenic whose occasional flights into madness and brutality
often have Jacob as their object. Jacob is the only person in the book who
has a handle on a moral compass and as his reward he spends most of
the novel beaten, broken, concussed, bleeding, swollen and hungover.
He is the self-appointed Protector of the Downtrodden, and... he falls in
love with Marlena, crazy August's wife. Not his best idea.

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