Her autobiographical debut "Glass Castle" was quickly put on my top-five-of-all-time list, so when I saw that Jeannette Walls wrote another book, I pulled out my Visa faster than you can say Amazon.com. Here she takes on the voice of her grandmother, Lily Casey Smith, and tells her story so vividly in the first person, you forget that Smith isn't the author. Hers is a story worth telling - growing up on a dusty farm in Texas, but knowing she was born for better things, Lily jumps on a horse at 15 years of age to ride solo 500 miles toward the Arizona frontier in pursuit of a teaching job. I always thought that truth was much better than fiction & Walls does an amazing job of integrating both, filling in the facts with witty dialogue, no doubt capturing her grandmother's voice. Lily's travels take her far and wide, with tragedies & triumphs, from finding her beloved sister's suicide to piloting a plane, getting swindled by Husband #1 and finding stability with Husband #2, from poverty to money and back. I found myself wishing I had half Lily's gumption, and would settle for one quarter of Walls' writing ability.
An amazing journey of the mind and spirit.Get more detail about Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel.
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