SaddledOne day, at the age of thirty one, Susan Richards realized that she was an alcoholic. She wrote it down in her journal, struck by the fact that it had taken nine years of waking up hung over to name her illness. What had changed? Susan had a new horse, a spirited Morgan named Georgia, and, as she says: It had something to do with Georgia. It had something to do with making a commitment as enormous as caring for a horse that might live as my companion

begin to wonder if a similar disaster could be heading to their hometown

Having graduated from medical college in Bombay in 1914

she caved to their wishes and went to business school

“A Southern Cinderella story with heart

But was there another way

clear-eyed account of growing up in the 1970s without electricity or running water

Oscar Peterson

Sometimes her way would be lit by others…”

who had none

Beautifully designed with illustrations

a provocative and devastating novel of individual lives caught in the grips of violent history—a timely and poignant story that reverberates with the power of Alice Walker’s Meridian and Ntozake Shange’s Betsey Browne

the painful secret she’s been hiding is uncovered