Jeannette Walls, whose heartbreaking memoir, Glass Castle, became an overnight bestseller in 2006, will read from her second book, Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel, the story of her bright, tough-as-nails maternal grandmother, Lily, who died when Jeannette was eight. Drawing on memories, family stories and her own research, Walls brings her adventurous grandmother to life with Half Broke Horses. 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. In this true-life novel, Jeannette Walls channels that kindred spirit. Half Broke Horses is Laura Ingalls Wilder for adults, as riveting and dramatic as Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa or Beryl Markham's West with the Night. Destined to become a classic, it will transfix readers everywhere.
 
This reading will be at the Iowa City Public Library at 7 PM.