Debut author Kathleen Cremonesi discusses her stunning memoir, Love in the Elephant Tent: How Running Away with the Circus Brought Me Home. Determined to avoid following in her mother's footsteps to an ill-fated marriage, Kathleen left Oregon in her early 20s to travel across Europe. On a whim, this former administrative assistant with wanderlust took a job as a dancer in an Italian circus and, working her way up, became an ostrich-riding, shark-taming showgirl.
Debut author Kathleen Cremonesi discusses her stunning memoir, Love in the Elephant Tent: How Running Away with the Circus Brought Me Home. Determined to avoid following in her mother's footsteps to an ill-fated marriage, Kathleen left Oregon in her early 20s to travel across Europe. On a whim, this former administrative assistant with wanderlust took a job as a dancer in an Italian circus and, working her way up, became an ostrich-riding, shark-taming showgirl.
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