Half Broke

Ginger Gaffney is a bold and original talent. This poignant, positive story of human and equine transformation subtly combines the author's own healing with the challenge of teaching difficult people to work with deeply scared horses. The characters leap off the page and into your heart. Savor this book, and then buy a copy for your best friend. -- Anne Hillerman, New York Times best-selling author of the Leaphorn, Chee, and Manuelito novels Half Broke is a love song to the broken ones, be they human or beast, and all the ways they find to mend. Ginger Gaffney's prose is as clean and lovely as the land she describes, and this story is one that hinges on some of the deepest truths. Among them the fact that loving well is the best medicine, and though we may not recover in a way that preserves the person we were, such loss is not without mercy. -- Melissa Febos, author of Whip Smart and Abandon Me Written with clarity and compassion, Half Broke is about the astounding power?of horses to heal broken human beings. It 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 Ginger Gaffney writes the intricacies of the equine-human relationship as well as I have ever seen it written...She knows a horse's mind as well as she knows her own. You will remember the tenacious and utterly winning people that populate Half Broke for a long, long time, and you will never forget the horses. -- Pam Houston, author of Deep Creek