Gold Winner, Nonfiction, 2024 Literary Titan Book Award
Kirkus Reviews'
Best Indie Books of 2024
First Prize, Creative Nonfiction, 2024 North Street Book Prize
Circle of Sawdust
is a uniquely personal story of the wild characters, fascinating personalities, remarkable histories, and behind-the-scenes world of traditional traveling circuses.
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.