Jacob Jankowski is an old man in a nursing home. When he was younger, he worked for the circus, and this book is basically a flashback from that time. Jacob went to an Ivy League college to get a degree in veterinary sciences. However, his parents died shortly before his final exam. His parents had mortgaged the farm, so he didn’t get anything at all in inheritance. He got to the final exam, and he just couldn’t focus at all. He left the room without having filled out a single answer. He ran away and jumped on a train to try to escape. When he got on the train, a man on the train almost threw him out. However, Camel, another man on the train, rescued him and told him that he was on a circus train, The Benzini Brothers’ Most Spectacular Show on Earth. Jacob got a job with the circus as the main veterinarian on the show. His first task is to take care of the main horse in the show, Silver Star. Marlena, the girl who performs on the horses, is devastated to find out that Silver Star cannot be healed. Jacob is kind of under the commands of August, Marlena’s husband. Jacob unintentionally tells August what to do one time, so August almost feeds him to the lions. August can be very temperamental and moody.
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