Chosen by a Horse: a memoir

Horse Care

Author: Susan Richards

“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, author of 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……Read More

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