Half Broke

""You will remember [these] tenacious and utterly winning people… for a long, long time, and you will never forget the horses."" -- Pam Houston, author of Deep Creek ""[Half Broke] shows a side of New Mexico that is seldom seen?the poverty and the struggle, but also the hopefulness and odd beauty of spirit within the people and the horses."" -- Leslie Marmon Silko, author of Ceremony ""Half Broke—with its painful candor and spare, incisive prose—is captivating."" -- Michael Upchurch - Seattle Times ""Fascinating.… Some of the most compelling characters here don’t speak in words: They are horses. And in Gaffney’s story, they come alive."" -- Deborah Hopkinson - BookPage ""With sensitive, soul-bearing prose, Gaffney weaves together her personal experiences as a horse trainer with the struggles of damaged humans and damaged horses. I was also moved by the depth of vulnerability and intuition of the horses. As Lorin Lindner’s Birds of a Feather reveals for traumatized parrots and soldiers, so Half Broke reveals for horses and parolees."" -- Jonathan Balcombe, author of What a Fish Knows ""Ginger Gaffney is a bold and original talent.… Savor this book, and then buy a copy for your best friend."" -- Anne Hillerman, New York Times best-selling author ""Gaffney pulls off the impressive feat of translating horses and humans. She creates lyricism through experience, landscape, and empathy."" -- Gretchen Lida - Washington Independent Review of Books ""This marvelous memoir, peopled with folks in serious trouble of one kind or another, and the horses they care for, creatures with their own sophisticated ways of communicating, taught me as much about language as have my seventy-seven years on the planet."" -- Abigail Thomas, author of What Comes Next and How to Like It ""Half Broke is the rare gift of a story exquisitely told, a book that shows us how to save ourselves by saving what we’ve left behind."" -- Nickole Brown, author of To Those Who Were Our First Gods ""Heartfelt and healing, Half Broke asks us to look at horses and ourselves in a new way. A very moving book for all animal lovers from a true horse whisperer."" -- Brenda Peterson, author of Wolf Nation: The Life, Death, and Return of Wild American Wolves