Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

What a great read--again!--by Jeannette Walls. This is a "prequel" memoir that fills in good background on her more personal memoir--"The Glass Castle." This is the history of her maternal grandmother--Lily--who was quite a character. Walls does a superb job of giving Lily a voice from the grave, with all her quirks & uniqueness, through a first-person narration. She called the book a True-to-Life novel. Don't miss this gem about some amazingly tough people who lived through some hardscrabble days, only to emerge the better for them.


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