Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel -- Jeannette Walls

<b><i>Half Broke Horses </i>is Laura Ingalls Wilder for adults, as riveting and dramatic as Isak Dinesen's <i>Out of Africa </i>or Beryl Markham's <i>West with the Night. </i>Destined to become a classic, it will transfix readers everywhere.</b> <p/>"Those old cows knew trouble was coming before we did." So begins 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 <i>The Glass Castle</i>. <p/>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. Rosemary Smith Walls always told Jeannette that she was like her grandmother, and in this true-life novel, Jeannette Walls channels that kindred spirit. <i>Half Broke Horses</i> is Laura Ingalls Wilder for adults, as riveting and dramatic as Isak Dinesen's <i>Out of Africa</i> or Beryl Markham's <i>West with the Night</i>. Destined to become a classic, it will transfix readers everywhere.<br><br><b>Author:</b> Jeann