water for elephants
publisher’s summary from audible.com A great read about the life and times of Jacob Jankowski, a “ninety or ninety-three year-old” man who lives in a nursing home. Jacob is waiting for his family to take him to the circus. Jacob and Marlena married and had 5 children spending the first seven years at the Ringling [...]
kite runner – khaled hosseini
from Publishers Weekly Hosseini’s stunning debut novel starts as an eloquent Afghan version of the American immigrant experience in the late 20th century, but betrayal and redemption come to the forefront when the narrator, a writer, returns to his ravaged homeland to rescue the son of his childhood friend after the boy’s parents are shot [...]