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A lonely woman draws strength from the abused racehorse
she nurses back to vitality.
JUNE | Memoir
$24 Hardcover
ISBN: 1-56947-419-2
Rights: Soho Press
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“Two kindred spirits find
each other in this beautifully written memoir about the human-animal bond.”
—Temple Grandin,
author of Animals in Translation |
“A fine tribute to the incredibly
healing bond between horse and horsewoman.”
—Samantha
Dunn, author of Faith in Carlos Gomez and Not by Accident |
“Proof that love for another animal can
alone make one human and humane: wit and crushing sadness chasing each other
all across the page; intelligence and bravery and perfect literary pitch….
Damn great.”
—Melissa
Holbrook Pierson,
Dark Horses and Black Beauties: Animals, Women, a Passion |
“A bold and sensitive memoir of what
it means to open one’s heart to love…. A magnificent read.”
—Adele von
Rust McCormick, Ph.D and Marlena Deborah McCormick, Ph.D., Horses and the
Mystical Path; Horse Sense and the Human Heart |
“A triumph for all spirits.”
—Laura Shaine Cunningham, A Place in the Country
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“Should rank with the great animal stories … an unforgettable
depiction of the bond between humans and creatures.”
—Ann
Arensberg, Incubus |
“This is a book that will break you
to tears, but leave you grateful. A stark, unvarnished, uplifting, heartbreaking,
telling of the tale of life—with horses.”
—The Gaited
Horse |
“Chosen by a Horse contains several extraordinary action sequences (Richards’ strength).... It also has moments of great silence and stillness.... I’ll never forget Lay Me Down or Hotshot.”
—Newsday |
“This is an inspirational story of what family means, and what the loss of one can do to us, and for us.”
—Naomi Rand, Boston Globe |
“Moving.”
—Hartford Courant |
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When she agrees to take on the care of one of the abused horses just rescued by the local SPCA, a new chapter opens in Susan Richards’s difficult life. She lost her mother at the age of five and was raised by uncaring relatives; married unhappily and divorced; and suffered from alcoholism. While trying to capture another horse assigned to her, Lay Me Down, a skeletal mare, walks into Susan’s horse trailer of her own volition. Susan already owns one mare and two geldings—the diva-like Georgia, boyish Tempo and hopelessly romantic Hotshot—but it is with Lay Me Down that she forges a special, healing relationship that alters her life.
Poignant and evocative, this is a book for anyone who has ever loved a horse, and for everyone who has ever lost a loved one.
SUSAN RICHARDS lives in Olivebridge, New York, with
three dogs, two cats, and four horses.
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