What is Water for Elephants?
{{Italic title}}{{Italic title}} {{infobox book | name = Water for Elephants | orig title = | translator = | image = | caption = | author = Sara Gruen | cover_artist = | country = United States | language = English | series = | genre = Circus<br />Crime<br />Historical<br />Romance | publisher = Algonquin Books | release_date = 2006 | media_type = Print | pages = | isbn = | preceded_by = | followed_by = }} '''''Water for Elephants''''' is a [[novel]] by Sara Gruen. It was published in 2006 by Algonquin Books. The story is about a 23 year old [[Polish American]] [[orphan]] who joins a [[circus]] during the [[Great Depression]]. Themes are [[love]] and [[Romance (love)|romance]], [[murder]], and [[cruelty to animals]]. The story was made into a 2011 [[Water for Elephants (movie)|movie]] starring [[Robert Pattinson]], [[Reese Witherspoon]], [[Christoph Waltz]], [[Jim Norton (actor)|Jim Norton]], and [[Hal Holbrook]]. [[Category:20th-century American novels]] [[Category:2006 books]] [[Category:Adultery in fiction]] [[Category:Books with circus settings]] [[Category:Romance novels]] {{lit-stub}}