Overview
At the start of this remarkable story of recovery, healing, and redemption, Ginger Gaffney answers a call to help retrain the troubled horses at an alternative prison ranch in New Mexico, a facility run entirely by the prisoners. The horses are scavenging through the dumpsters, kicking and running down the residents when they bring the trash out after meals. One horse is severely injured. The horses and residents arrive at the ranch broken in one way or many: the horses are defensive and terrified, while the residents, some battling drug and alcohol addictions, are emotionally and physically shattered. With deep insight into how animals and humans communicate through posture, body language, and honesty of spirit, Gaffney walks us through her struggle to train the untrainable. Gaffney peels away the layers of her own story--a solitary childhood, painful introversion, and a transformative connection with her first horse, a filly named Belle--and she, too, learns to trust people as much as she trusts horses. As her year-long odyssey builds toward a dramatic conclusion, the group experiences triumphs and failures, brave recoveries and relapses, as well as betrayals and moving stories of trust and belonging.
Full Product Details
Author: Christa Lewis ,
Ginger Gaffney
Publisher: HighBridge Audio
Imprint: HighBridge Audio
ISBN: 9781665117876
ISBN 10: 1665117877
Publication Date: 17 March 2020
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Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
"""Half Broke documents a year and a half of finding deep connection and communion."" -- ""New York Times Book Review"" ""A heartening story of healing and interspecies connection."" -- ""Kirkus Reviews"" ""Gaffney pulls off the impressive feat of translating horses and humans. She creates lyricism through experience, landscape, and empathy."" -- "" Washington Independent Review of Books"" ""Gaffney's story will delight horse lovers, and her anxieties as an introvert will broaden the appeal of this passionate memoir."" -- ""Publishers Weekly"" ""Some of the most compelling characters here don't speak in words: they are horses. And in Gaffney's story, they come alive."" -- ""BookPage"" ""The characters leap off the page and into your heart."" -- ""Anne Hillerman, New York Times bestselling author"""
Half Broke documents a year and a half of finding deep connection and communion. -- New York Times Book Review A heartening story of healing and interspecies connection. -- Kirkus Reviews Gaffney pulls off the impressive feat of translating horses and humans. She creates lyricism through experience, landscape, and empathy. -- Washington Independent Review of Books Gaffney's story will delight horse lovers, and her anxieties as an introvert will broaden the appeal of this passionate memoir. -- Publishers Weekly Some of the most compelling characters here don't speak in words: they are horses. And in Gaffney's story, they come alive. -- BookPage The characters leap off the page and into your heart. -- Anne Hillerman, New York Times bestselling author
Author Information
Christa Lewis, winner of several AudioFile Earphones Awards, is a classically trained actress and a graduate of Boston University's four-year conservatory training program. She has worked full time at the microphone since getting her start as a newsreader for an international news broadcaster and now narrates audiobooks full time. Ginger Gaffney is a top-ranked horse trainer. She received an MFA degree from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, and her work has been published in Tin House and Utne Reader.
