{"product_id":"b004hyhai0","title":"Chosen by a Horse: a memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e“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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“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, PhD, authors of  Horses and the Mystical Path; Horse Sense and the Human Heart\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“A triumph for all spirits.”—Laura Shaine Cunningham, author of  A Place in the Country\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Should rank with the great animal stories.”—Ann Arensberg, author of  Incubus\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwo kindred spirits find each other in this beautifully written memoir about the human-animal bond.—Temple Grandin, author of  Animals in Translation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen 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 Susan is trying to capture the 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePoignant and evocative, this is a book for anyone who has ever loved a horse, and for everyone who has ever lost a loved one.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":67924734476533,"sku":"YSL53888","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/8774\/8597\/files\/816k7dePyoL._SY1500.jpg?v=1793673604","url":"https:\/\/www.newbooks.store\/products\/b004hyhai0","provider":"NewBooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}