‘Then clearly you’ve never been through the ten-in-one.’ She cupped her hands around her mouth and hollered. You’ve signed on with Mosco’s Traveling Wonder Show.’ It is in this manner that Portia Remini joins the Wonder Show: Peddling madly on a stolen, red bike she catches up with a traveling circus, the perfect cover for a runaway.
It doesn’t take long for Portia to decide she needs to escape and find her father, who had left her with the promise of coming back for her one day. When the tribe falls upon hard times and must disband, Portia finds herself a resident of McGreavy’s Home for Wayward Girls, a miserable, slavish establishment. It begins with Portia Remini’s life as a child in a gypsy tribe, where a tradition of storytelling is not only in her blood, but in the very air around her. Wonder Show is set in 1939 in America’s midwest. Here are a few discriptors that might grab your attention: Gypsy, Sideshow, Circus, Storytelling, Family, Self-Discovery, Abandonment, Mystery, Death, Friendship. Hannah Barnaby’s Wonder Show recently gave me that pleasure.
It’s been a long time since I thoroughly enjoyed a book with no complaints.
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