Circle of Sawdust

<p><strong style=color: rgba(87 87 87 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Winner 2025 London Book Festival</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(87 87 87 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Gold Nonfiction 2024 Literary Titan Book Award</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(87 87 87 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)><em>Kirkus Reviews' </em>Best Indie Books of 2024</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(87 87 87 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>First Prize Creative Nonfiction 2024 North Street Book Prize</strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)><em>Circle of Sawdust</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> is a uniquely personal story of the wild characters fascinating personalities remarkable histories and behind-the-scenes world of traditional traveling circuses.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Here is a true-life tale about a boy's impulse to run off and join the circus and then-through doubt failure loss and tragedy-pursue the implausible vision of starting his own circus! With humor and passion founder of Circus Smirkus Rob Mermin writes about the precarious life of a creative artist the ups and downs of taking risks and the idealistic struggle to hold onto a dream.</span></p>