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Bad Elephant Far Stream
A Literary Fiction Novel by Samuel Hawley
Subgenres:
- Historical Fiction,
- Animal Narrator,
- Circus Fiction
This book is for you if you're into...
- Animal perspectives that feel fully lived-in and emotionally rich
- Circus settings with grit, spectacle, and heartbreak
- Historical fiction exploring captivity and longing for home
Bad Elephant Far Stream is an elephant's life story, told from her own perspective, through her own eyes. Inspired by the true story of the elephant Topsy, it begins in the forests of Ceylon in the late 1860s with the capture of a baby elephant known to her own kind as Far Stream.
She is taken to America and sent to the Adam Forepaugh Circus in Philadelphia. There, Far Stream embarks on a new life under the big top, appearing first as "Baby Annie," then, when she grows bigger, as "Topsy." She crisscrosses North America for thirty years with the circus, experiencing hardships, kidnapping, escapes and adventure. But when she comes to outweigh her keepers by a factor of forty—it's hard not to hurt somebody. It's hard not to be labeled as "bad."
What is it like to be an elephant in the circus? What does it think? What does it feel? What does it yearn for? Bad Elephant Far Stream takes the reader on a voyage of discovery to find out.
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