Title:
Travels
with a Mexican Circus
Author:
Katie
Hickman
Genre:
Nonfiction,
memoir, travel.
Publisher:
HarperCollins
Publishers
Publishing
date: 2014 (original 1993)
Pages:
356
Rating
★★★★★
Hello! This is
the first nonfiction book I’ve read. I read it last December as part of my
research for the book I’m writing.
Travels with a Mexican Circus is an
account of Katie Hickman's extraordinary year spent amidst the faded glamour of
a Mexican travelling circus. Katie Hickman went to Mexico looking for magic.
She found it in the circus - big top, clowns, elephant and all - where cheap,
torn materials are transformed for a night into glittering illusion. Gradually
adjusting to the harsh ways of the circus's nomadic lifestyle she soon became
absorbed into this hypnotic new world. At first, as a foreigner, she was on the
outskirts, but she soon became La Gringa
Estrella, a performer in her own right and adopted sister to the Bell's
family.
Travels with a Mexican Circus was originally titled A Trip to the Light Fantastic. Katie Hickman traveled with the
Bell’s circus from 1989 to 1990, and published her book originally in 1993. In
2014 the book was published again with the new name.
