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• Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Adult Fiction (2007)
• ALA Alex Award (2007)
• The Quill Award Nominee for General Fiction (2006)
• LovelyBooks Leserpreis Nominee for Allgemeine Literatur (2009)

In Depression-era America, everyone's running away from something. Some people join the circus to escape. Jacob Jankowski hitches a ride on a freight train and in that instant his life changes. By morning, he's landed a job with the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. By nightfall, he's in love.

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