Half Broke Horses
By: Jeannette Walls
Genre: true-life novel
Pages: 263
Published: 2009
Read: August
4 out of 5
Jeannette Walls
is a beautiful storyteller; she writes with elegance and vitality. She tells the story of her grandmother's
childhood from the first person view; she provides a certain closeness the
reader achieves with the characters.
While the novel is written with the stories Walls remembers from her
childhood and family interviews, she still classifies as a (true-life) novel
because some aspects were hazy or unable to be referenced as factual. At the end of Half Broke Horses, Jeanette herself is born and her childhood
continues in The Glass Castle, which
was written first (2005) and also Wall’s first book. I highly recommend both these books.
Jeannette Wall’s
doesn’t have a personal website. However,
she did just release her third book, The Silver Star, which I am anxious to
read.
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