The Circus in Winter

Contemporary Literature & Fiction

Author: Cathy Day

From 1884 to 1939, the Great Porter Circus makes the unlikely choice to winter in an Indiana town called Lima, a place that feels as classic as Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio, and as wondrous as a first trip to the Big Top. In Lima an elephant can change the course of a man’s life-or the manner of his death. Jennie Dixianna entices men with her dazzling Spin of Death….Read More

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