New Book: water for elephants

Yesterday I started the book Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen. The story starts with an interesting prologue describing a hectic memory of the main character, Jacob. That ends in a horrifying twist. “’Oh Jesus’ I said in sudden understanding. I stumbled forward, screaming even though there was no hope of my voice reaching her. ‘Don’t do it! Don’t do it!’ She lifted the steak high into the air and brought it down, splitting his head like a watermelon. His pate opened, his eyes grew wide, and his mouth froze into and O. He fell to his knees and then toppled forward into the straw. I was too stunned to move, even as a young orangutan flung its elastic arms around my legs. So long ago. So long. But still it haunts me.” This ending to the three page prologue left my mind curious and I immediately wanted to know more. I read the first couple of chapters and saw that the book went back and forth from his present life where he resides at a nursing home, to his past when his parents die and interesting turn of events land him in the circus. It keeps switching back and forth, and its hard to tell what the author is going to do next. I feel like that he is going to meet his crush from back when he was young at the nursing home. Or he will tell the nurse that he has now, that is breaking the rules and is giving him good food not from the cafeteria this story and she will end up being a relative to the girl he liked from his past.. The story is super interesting though and I haven’t put it down since I have picked up. I can’t wait to see what happens next on his wonderful adventure!