Half Broke Horses is a second book written by Jeannette Walls. Her first book was a memoir where she detailed her nomadic childhood and the colorful parents and siblings that she has. Half Broke Horses is sort of a prequel in that it tells the story of her grandmother, Lily Casey, but in first person [...]
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The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
This memoir by Jeannette Walls leads the reader through her dysfunctional family as a child to an adult, with the mixed feelings that go along with that journey. Again, the first sentence of this book caught my attention and kept me reading. “I was sitting in a taxi, wondering if I had overdressed for the [...]