Deze openhartige, ontroerende autobiografie speelt zich af op een boerderij in New Mexico, gerund door gevangenen die er hun straf uitzitten. De veroordeelde misdadigers, drank- en drugsverslaafden die er wonen, worden voorbereid op hun terugkeer naar de maatschappij door arbeid, bijscholing en discipline. Op de boerderij leeft ook een kudde paarden. Gedurende decennia leerden de bewoners elkaar van alles, maar de kennis hoe met paarden om te gaan is langzaam verdwenen. De wisselwerking tu...

**Winner of a 2020 Border Regional Library Association Southwest Book Award“Truly transcendent.” —Jessica Lustig, New York Times Book Review**This riveting memoir follows professional horse trainer Ginger Gaffney’s year-long odyssey to train a herd of neglected horses at an alternative prison ranch in New Mexico. Working with her is a small team of ranch “residents,” men and women who are each uniquely broken by addiction and incarceration. Gaffney forms a bond wit...

At the start of this remarkable story of recovery, healing, and redemption, Ginger Gaffney answers a call to help retrain the troubled horses at an alternative prison ranch in New Mexico, a facility run entirely by the prisoners. The horses are scavenging through the dumpsters, kicking and running down the residents when they bring the trash out after meals. One horse is severely injured.The horses and residents arrive at the ranch broken in one way or many: the horses are defensiv...