Smells Like Horses …
Jeannette Walls’s forthcoming book (October) is entitled Half Broke Horses. Oh no! Not horses! Turns out, it’s the story of her grandma. But it includes horses and cows and floods and West Texas and Arizona. Well. All right. I thought The Glass Castle was really good, so I’ll say this: If Jeannette Walls can do a book about her grandma out West and not, somehow, with all of her popularity (i.e. power over editors, etc.), lapse tragically into every shade of western purple there is, I will, ever more loudly, sing her praises from the rooftops.
I’m rooting for her to pull it off.
Stay tuned.
