Title: Half-Broke Horses: A True Life Novel.
Author: Jeannette Walls.
Characters are developed -- the spoken parts retain the flavor of the area in which they lived and worked and I believe in the strength of the characters. I found the humor really refreshing. As the main female character developed and completed her college education, her speech became less regional and less idiomatic; more refined; but she is a stern mom to her daughter. She mentions her first failed marriage as a fear for her daughter's choices for a husband. She's very human about her suspicion that her husband was becoming more chummy with another woman, and her actions were humorous. The strength of all of the main characters was amazing, but their life choice was hard, considering it was fairly modern times.
Fiction; rated 5 out of 5.
Reviewed by Annabelle Weiss
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