Half Broke Horses av Jeanette Walls

 From the author of The Glass Castle and Hang the Moon—“Walls vividly depicts her astonishing, resilient grandmother with a lightness of touch that is plainspoken yet heartfelt” (Chicago Tribune). Half Broke Horses has transfixed readers everywhere.

“Those old cows knew trouble was coming before we did.” So begins the story of Lily Casey Smith, Jeannette Walls’s no-nonsense, resourceful, and spectacularly compelling grandmother. By age six, Lily was helping her father break horses. At fifteen, she left home to teach in a frontier town—riding five hundred miles on her pony, alone, to get to her job. She learned to drive a car and fly a plane. And, with her husband, Jim, she ran a vast ranch in Arizona. She raised two children, one who is Jeannette’s memorable mother, Rosemary Smith Walls, unforgettably portrayed in The Glass Castle.

Lily survived tornadoes, droughts, floods, the Great Depression, and the most heartbreaking personal tragedy. She bristled at prejudice of all kinds—against women, Native Americans, and anyone else who didn’t fit the mold. Rosemary Smith Walls always told Jeannette that she was like her grandmother, and in this true-life novel, Jeannette Walls channels that kindred spirit. Half Broke Horses is Laura Ingalls Wilder for adults, as riveting and dramatic as Isak Dinesen’s Out of Africa or Beryl Markham’s West with the Night. Destined to become a classic, it will transfix readers everywhere.

Beskrivning av bokens handling hämtad från Adlibris.

Den här boken läste jag på grund av mitt och Evelinas stora läsprojekt, Världen runt, då vi tänkte utöka det till att inte bara var att välja en bok för varje land som finns utan även att vi skulle läsa en bok som representerade varje delstad i USA. Och den här ska då vara för delstaden Arizona.

Det var en intressant bok om nybyggartiden i USA och om en stark familjekvinnas liv och leverne i "Vilda Västern", mycket intressant och även om det inte var vad jag tänkte mig från början vad den skulle handla om var det mycket som gjorde mig nyfiken på hur det var.