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ONE OF USA TODAY'S "20 SUMMER BOOKS YOU WON'T WANT TO MISS"
In the bestselling tradition of works by such authors as Susan Orlean and Mary Roach, a New York Times reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist explores why so many people-including herself-are obsessed with horses.
It may surprise you…
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1 author picked Horse Crazy as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Because horses… Nir begins. She deftly weaves together her personal history and her love of horses. It may be an elusive love, but one of her former riding instructors puts it best: “Twelve, that’s my age with horses... that kind of free, fearless thing that I used to have at that age.” Nir, raised by a Holocaust survivor father who figures large in her life, grows up with all the accouterments of wealth on the Upper East Side and summers in the Hamptons. Despite the trappings, she feels she is from the wrong background and is an outsider in…
From Tory's list on The best memoirs by women who love horses.
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