Half Broke Horses
by Jeannette Walls
2020-11-20 16:11:42
Half Broke Horses is Laura Ingalls Wilder for adults, as riveting and dramatic as Isak Dinesenâs Out of Africa or Beryl Markhamâs West with the Night. Destined to become a classic, it will transfix readers everywhere. âThose old cows k...
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Half Broke Horses is Laura Ingalls Wilder for adults, as riveting and dramatic as Isak Dinesenâs Out of Africa or Beryl Markhamâs West with the Night. Destined to become a classic, it will transfix readers everywhere. âThose old cows knew trouble was coming before we did.â So begins the story of Lily Casey Smith, Jeannette Wallsâs no-nonsense, resourceful, and spectacularly compelling grandmother. By age six, Lily was helping her father break horses. At fifteen, she left home to teach in a frontier townâriding five hundred miles on her pony, alone, to get to her job. She learned to drive a car and fly a plane. And, with her husband, Jim, she ran a vast ranch in Arizona. She raised two children, one who is Jeannetteâs memorable mother, Rosemary Smith Walls, unforgettably portrayed in The Glass Castle. Lily survived tornadoes, droughts, floods, the Great Depression, and the most heartbreaking personal tragedy. She bristled at prejudice of all kindsâagainst women, Native Americans, and anyone else who didnât fit the mold. Rosemary Smith Walls always told Jeannette that she was like her grandmother, and in this true-life novel, Jeannette Walls channels that kindred spirit. Half Broke Horses is Laura Ingalls Wilder for adults, as riveting and dramatic as Isak Dinesenâs Out of Africa or Beryl Markhamâs West with the Night. Destined to become a classic, it will transfix readers everywhere.
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