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REVIEWS: Half Broke Horses
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The NY Times
Good Reads
Plugged In
Publishers Weekly
Book Companion
Half Broke Horses is destined to become a classic. It
will transfix readers everywhere. This is the story of Lily
Casey Smith, Jeannette Walls’s 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 town—riding 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 Jeannette’s
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 kinds—against women,
Native Americans, and anyone else who didn’t fit the mold. Half
Broke Horses is Laura Ingalls Wilder for adults, as riveting and
dramatic as Isak Dinesen’s Out of Africa or Beryl Markham’s West
with the Night.
Characters: 63. Amazon rating: 4 1/2 stars. Genre: Historical
Fiction.
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