{"product_id":"447","title":"Chosen by a Horse: A Memoir by Susan Richards","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\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\u003cp\u003e“A triumph for all spirits.”—Laura Shaine Cunningham, author of A Place in the Country\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Should rank with the great animal stories.”—Ann Arensberg, author of Incubus\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Two 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\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\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":"Weathering The Storm Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Buy it Now","offer_id":43908735205454,"sku":null,"price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"2 Book Rental","offer_id":43908735238222,"sku":null,"price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"4 Book Rental","offer_id":43908735270990,"sku":null,"price":6.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"8 Book Rental","offer_id":43908735303758,"sku":null,"price":6.12,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0731\/2133\/3326\/files\/PXL_20260708_023942978.jpg?v=1783999003","url":"https:\/\/wtsbookstore.com\/products\/447","provider":"Weathering The Storm Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}