I wasn’t sure I was going to like this book at first. The first few chapters are a page or two long at the most and it was bothering me. I absolutely loved Walls’ first novel, The Glass Castle, and after I got into it a little bit, I really liked this one too. The Glass Castle is a memoir of the author’s childhood. Half Broke Horses is the story of her grandmother and also the author’s mother’s childhood. Reading Half Broke Horses really helped me to understand how her mother got to be who she was because after reading The Glass Castle I was flabbergasted as to how anyone could live that way, on purpose, with children in tow.
Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
Sunday, January 17, 2010
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