Book Review - Half Broke Horses

Summary: Lily Casey Smith, this novel's feisty Texas protagonist, is a frontier teacher, a rancher, a rodeo rider, a poker player, and bootlegger. In Half Broke Horses, she survives droughts, tornadoes, floods, poverty, a bigamous husband, and whatever else fate can throw against her. Based on author Jeannette Walls' grandmother, Lily is a plausible character because she has a voice that synchronizes with her history. This novel lives up to the still gathering acclaim for Walls' novel The Glass Castle.

My Thoughts: I really enjoyed this book and actually wished I had read it before reading Glass Castle. I think that I would have had a better understanding of where Rosemary was coming from when she would do such unconventional things. Half Broke Horses reminded me a lot of These Is My Words because they are both about a strong woman just trying to make it in the desert frontiers of the Southwest. I would recommend this book to anyone!