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"It's about so much more than just a circus...the book is about the stuff of life that makes it rich!”
-Keliann Ganoo, SPC student
Water for Elephants, a New York Times fiction bestseller and now a major motion picture, is a veterinary school dropout's tale of love, tragedy, and survival experienced while caring for a menagerie of animals in a traveling circus, run by self-serving superiors, in the 1930s.
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