The real Traveling carnival is in the pathos of carnival lives behind the scenes.
Comerford finds carnival people seeking meaning and love in their lives, and the answers always seem to be somewhere down the road..
He exposes the truths about immigration, labor abuse, and living between two worlds.
He travels to the lawless foothills of Mexico to see the new face of the American carny.
He becomes the #1 hitchhiker in the USA and a top agent at the State Fair of Texas.
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.
And a young showman friend dies on the road.
Masked gunmen rob his carnival.
An insult dunk tank clown is shot.
He shares stories of freaks, a carnival pimp, a tramp gold miner, and the last King of the Sideshows.
You\'ll never see your State fair or neighborhood festival the same way again Comerford writes a bold, inspiring true story of a Year working shoulder-to-shoulder with the colorful characters and legends of carnivals.
American Oz is a rollicking, gritty, adventurous story of life in the secretive subculture of Traveling carnivals.
The real Traveling carnival is in the pathos of carnival lives behind the scenes
