American Oz: An Astonishing Year in Traveling Carnivals at State Fairs & Festivals: Hitchhiking From California to New York, Alaska to Mexico
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The real traveling carnival is behind the scenes, in the pathos of carnival lives.
American Oz is a rollicking, gritty, adventurous story of life in the secretive subculture of traveling carnivals.
Comerford writes a bold, inspiring true story of a year working behind the scenes with the colorful characters and legends of carnivals.
He shares stories of freaks, a carnival pimp, a tramp gold miner, and the last King of the Sideshows . An insult dunk tank clown is shot. Masked gunmen rob his carnival. And a young showman friend dies on the road.
It's a new classic American road story as he hitchhikes to shows in California, New Jersey, New York, Chicago, Alaska, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Texas, Georgia, and Florida where he works in a freak show.
He becomes the #1 hitchhiker in the USA and a top agent at the State Fair of Texas .
He travels to the lawless foothills of Mexico to see the new face of the American carny. He exposes the truths about i mmigration, labor abuse, and living between two worlds .
Comerford finds carnival people seeking meaning and love in their lives, and the answers always seem to be somewhere down the road.
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