Travels with a Mexican Circus, by Katie Hickman

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A memoir by an American woman who joins a Mexican circus as a kind of hanger-on, though she does end up sometimes riding the elephant. The circus details were fun but this book contained way more rape and domestic violence than I had expected, though to be fair I had expected none. It’s also got a whole lot of “all Mexicans are X trait.”

I am reading circus and carnival themed books as inspiration for a circus book I’m writing. Does anyone have any suggestions, fiction or nonfiction? I already read The Night Circus but it didn’t have enough actual circus for my taste.

Travels with a Mexican Circus