Jilted by his cheating wife when they visit a traveling circus, Marshall finds himself pulled into a world of lions and tigers, clowns, carousels and enough sweeping and shoveling to make a grown man weep. Beautiful Giulietta seems attracted to him, but when the accidents start, things get out of hand.
Written from both of their points of view, we see things from the inside of two people we just know have to get together. But love is many things: funny, painful, refreshing, exhausting, and only rarely includes a trapeze or clowns.
Calliope will have you forgetting it’s a novel and saying, “Oh yeah, that’s probably how it happened.” We hope things work out, but you can’t please everybody.