sentence: Themes are love and romance, murder, and cruelty to animals.
sentences_before: 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.
sentences_after: The story was made into a 2011 movie starring Robert Pattinson, Reese Witherspoon, Christoph Waltz, Jim Norton, and Hal Holbrook.
concept_name: theme
headings: Water for Elephants
categories: Books with circus settings 20th century American novels 2006 books English-language novels