Falling Off Horses

A Memoir

Karen Donley-Hayes

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English

Milspeak Books, Milspeak Foundation, Inc.
01 March 2023

Autobiography: general; Memoirs; Gender studies: women; Horse racing

Karen and Lash meet as teenagers and form an immediate bond over their mutual love for horses. Year later, Lash marries, and she and her husband locate their dream acreage for building a home and an equestrian facility, only Lash's dream isn't complete if she can't convince Karen to risk everything in a purchase of the adjoining property. Karen eventually gambles it all, and together, she and Lash weather countless falls from horses, a roller coaster of love losses and triumphs, the emotional pitfalls of equestrian breeding and competing-and finally, a heartbreaking diagnosis of a fatal illness.

By: Karen Donley-Hayes
Imprint: Milspeak Books, Milspeak Foundation, Inc.
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 367g
ISBN: 9798985794144
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 01 March 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Karen Donley-Hayes's work has appeared in The Journal of the American Medical Association, Bartleby Snopes, Blue Lyra Review, The Quotable, The Healing Muse, Pulse, The Saturday Evening Post online, and others, and has been anthologized in Chicken Soup for the Soul: My Cat's Life; The Heart of All That Is: Reflections on Home; and Blue Lyra Review Anthology. She and her husband, Arnold, live in Garrettsville, Ohio. Falling Off Horses is Karen's first book. Karen's debut young-adult novel, Shoalie's Crow, will be released by MilSpeak's imprint, Family of Light Books, in spring 2024.

Reviews for Falling Off Horses: A Memoir

"""I once heard the great western writer William Kittredge say, 'They won't pay you to juggle one orange.' Falling Off Horses is a story of love and grief, how the life and death of a great friend transformed the author. But it is also about the lives of horses and horsewomen. It is in the deft juggling of these narratives that Karen Donley-Hayes transforms life into art. Like magic."" Bob Cowser, Jr., award-winning author of Dream Season and Green Fields: Crime, Punishment, and a Boyhood Between ""A tender story of an unforgettable friendship bound by love and passion for horses, Karen Donley-Hayes's beautifully written memoir is sure to move anyone who reads it."" Anne Clermont, author of Learning to Fall, the 2020 General Horse Fiction Winner at the Equus Film and Arts Festival ""Karen Donley-Hayes has penned a timely and inspirational memoir about friendship and love. Her writing gives us humor, horses, lovers and friends, but more, it invites us to explore exactly what it means to be human and why we need each other."" Jon R. Kerstetter, M.D., Col MC FS, Iowa Army National Guard (retired), award-winning author of Crossings: A Doctor-Soldier's Story"