<p><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(87, 87, 87, 1)">Gold Winner, Nonfiction, 2024 Literary Titan Book Award</strong></p><p><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(87, 87, 87, 1)"><em>Kirkus Reviews' </em>Best Indie Books of 2024</strong></p><p><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(87, 87, 87, 1)">First Prize, Creative Nonfiction, 2024 North Street Book Prize</strong></p><p></p><p><strong style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)"><em>Circle of Sawdust</em></strong><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)"> 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="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">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>