'Half Broke Horses' by Jeannette Walls

In
Half Broke Horses: A True Life Novel, Jeannette Walls tells her grandmother's story, told in a first person voice. Lily Casey Smith started helping her father break horses by the time she was six. As a young woman, she rode 500 miles by herself on her pony to take a job teaching in a frontier town.
Half Broke Horses shows how Lily lived through the Great Depression and personal tragedies. Walls' channeling her grandmother's voice is what makes this "novel" so compelling.
Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls has 288 pages.
Book Release Date: October 6, 2009