The Truth about Horses
- Subject
- Animals - Horses
- Age
- Teen
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Pages
- 392
- Publisher
- Sparkpress
- Size
- 14.0 cm × 21.3 cm
- ISBN
- 9781684632121
A brave 14-year-old girl races against time to save her horse, her farm, and her relationship with her father while honoring her mother’s memory.
“A sumptuously written novel about love, loss, and horses. I devoured this book!”—Elin Hilderbrand, author of The Perfect Couple
Winner of the 2024 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Gold Award for General Fiction and Silver Awards for Best New Voice and Teen Fiction, this best-selling debut novel weaves a spellbinding tale in which everyone has magical powers within them just waiting to be discovered.
REESE TUCKER’S family lives a simple, hardworking existence on their farm in Birdwood, South Dakota. Their love for the horses they raise and train is the only thing that keeps their business afloat. But their fortunes could change if they find a horse special enough to win the Black Elk race. Reese’s mom believes that horse is Trusted Treasure.
But two connected tragedies set Reese’s world spinning. Just when victory is mere feet away, Trusted Treasure takes a fall at the Black Elk finish line. While still reeling from that loss, the family is given hope when, during a drive, they encounter a near-mystical herd of wild horses led by a mysterious black stallion. But just when they’ve begun to dream again, the drive ends in a disaster that results in the sale of the family business and their beloved horse, Trusted Treasure, decisions for which fourteen-year old Reese may never forgive her father.
Heartbroken and still longing for the life she loved, Reese meets Wes, a stranger who’s just come to town. His way of training horses is unlike anything she’s ever seen. If anyone can win the Black Elk, it’s him—but he’s struggling with his own troubled past.
Amid heartaches and triumphs, Reese must prove her worth, heal her fractured family, help a new friend with a troubled past, and show everyone that some dreams are worth fighting for. As she struggles to do all this she discovers that even in the darkest of times, love and resilience can light the way.
The Truth About Horses will have you laughing and crying—sometimes on the same page—all the while rooting for Reese, the most unlikely of heroes.
“A sumptuously written novel about love, loss, and horses. I devoured this book!”—Elin Hilderbrand, author of The Perfect Couple
Winner of the 2024 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Gold Award for General Fiction and Silver Awards for Best New Voice and Teen Fiction, this best-selling debut novel weaves a spellbinding tale in which everyone has magical powers within them just waiting to be discovered.
REESE TUCKER’S family lives a simple, hardworking existence on their farm in Birdwood, South Dakota. Their love for the horses they raise and train is the only thing that keeps their business afloat. But their fortunes could change if they find a horse special enough to win the Black Elk race. Reese’s mom believes that horse is Trusted Treasure.
But two connected tragedies set Reese’s world spinning. Just when victory is mere feet away, Trusted Treasure takes a fall at the Black Elk finish line. While still reeling from that loss, the family is given hope when, during a drive, they encounter a near-mystical herd of wild horses led by a mysterious black stallion. But just when they’ve begun to dream again, the drive ends in a disaster that results in the sale of the family business and their beloved horse, Trusted Treasure, decisions for which fourteen-year old Reese may never forgive her father.
Heartbroken and still longing for the life she loved, Reese meets Wes, a stranger who’s just come to town. His way of training horses is unlike anything she’s ever seen. If anyone can win the Black Elk, it’s him—but he’s struggling with his own troubled past.
Amid heartaches and triumphs, Reese must prove her worth, heal her fractured family, help a new friend with a troubled past, and show everyone that some dreams are worth fighting for. As she struggles to do all this she discovers that even in the darkest of times, love and resilience can light the way.
The Truth About Horses will have you laughing and crying—sometimes on the same page—all the while rooting for Reese, the most unlikely of heroes.
About the author
Christy CashmanAuthor
Christy Cashman is an American author, actress, and producer who has appeared in more than twenty films, including Kettle of Fish, The Love Guide, American Hustle, Joy, The Descendants, Ted 2, The Women, The Golden Boys, and The Forger. She has also written two children’s books set in Ireland: The Not-So-Average Monkey of Kilkea Castle and Petri’s Next Things. The Truth About Horses is her first novel. Christy lives with her husband, Jay; two sons, Jay Michael and Quinn; their three dogs, Ben, Dan, and Violet; and three horses, Calvin, Butterscotch, and Victor. When Christy is not writing or working on production projects, she is most likely riding her horses or spending time with her dogs. The family divides their time between Kilkea Castle in Ireland and their homes in Chatham and Boston, Massachusetts.
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What reviewers said
2024 NYC Big Book Awards Winner in Death and Dying
2024 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards Gold Winner in Fiction: General
2024 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards Silver Winner in Teen: Fiction (13-18)
2024 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards Silver Winner in Best New Voice: Fiction
“What an irresistibly readable novel Christy Cashman has written! Her young heroine Reese is an astonishing creation, warmly sympathetic, impulsive, unpredictable, brash, loyal and loving, endearing, exasperating, most of all memorable—a triumphant portrait of tumultuous adolescence in our time. The Truth About Horses plunges us into a beautifully evoked rural world in which horses are both magnificent beasts requiring human love and devotion, and iconic creatures out of mythology.”
“From its first gripping pages, this beautifully written, vividly imagined novel had me hooked. Anyone who remembers being a teen, loving horses, or losing a loved one will find deep meaning in this book.”
—Sy Montgomery, New York Times best-selling author of How to Be a Good Creature and The Soul of an Octopus
“With all of the unpredictable thrill of a horseback ride, The Truth About Horses took me deep into the mind of a teenage girl searching for her post-traumatic truth. It is a beautiful, moving story that I'm glad to know and certain to remember.”
“This is a heartwarming novel about facing down the perils of adversity. It's also an examination of how and why we become stronger at the broken places. Christy Cashman has written a book for everyone, young and old, who wants to know about the elemental gallop of the heart.”
“Original, deftly crafted, brilliant, and a compelling page-turner of a read from start to finish, The Truth About Horses showcases author Christy Cashman’s genuine flair for the kind of memorable narrative storytelling style that keeps young readers riveted from beginning to end.”
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