Offsite Event: Jeannette Walls - Half Broke Horses -7pm

PLEASE NOTE: This is an offsite event at the Dobson High School auditorium, 1501 W Guadalupe Rd, Mesa, AZ 85202-7599.

ADMISSION TICKETS are free with purchase of 2009 NY Times Notable Book of the Year, Half Broke Horses, from Changing Hands Bookstore. First editions are still available. The admission ticket is also the book signing ticket. Each admission ticket is good for two seats.

Doors open at 6:30pm. The booksigning follows the presentation. Signing group letters will be called alphabetically to form the booksigning line.

CAN’T MAKE IT TO THE EVENT? If you’d like an autographed book from any of our author events, please call us at 480.730.0205 to pre-pay and we’ll have one or more copies signed and reserved for you.

Jeannette Walls’ memoir The Glass Castle was “nothing short of spectacular” (Entertainment Weekly). Now, in Half Broke Horses, she brings us the story of her grandmother, told in a first-person voice that is authentic, irresistible, and triumphant. “Those old cows knew trouble was coming before we did.” So begins the story of Lily Casey Smith, Jeannette Walls's no nonsense, resourceful, and spectacularly compelling grandmother. By age six, Lily was helping her father break horses. At fifteen, she left home to teach in a frontier town -- riding five hundred miles on her pony, alone, to get to her job. She learned to drive a car (“I loved cars even more than I loved horses. They didn’t need to be fed if they weren’t working, and they didn't leave big piles of manure all over the place.”) and fly a plane. With her husband, Jim, she ran a vast ranch in Arizona and raised two children, one of whom is Jeannette’s memorable mother, Rosemary Smith Walls, unforgettably portrayed in The Glass Castle. Lily survived tornadoes, droughts, floods, the Great Depression, and the most heartbreaking personal tragedy. She bristled at prejudice of all kinds -- against women, Native Americans, and anyone else who didn’t fit the mold. Rosemary Smith Walls always told Jeannette that she was like her grandmother, and in this true-life novel, Walls channels that kindred spirit.