Half Broke Horses
by Jeannette Walls

Half Broke Horses: Genre 1 key example

Genre
Explanation and Analysis:

Half-Broke Horses is a novel based on true events from the author's grandmother's life. In other words, it is a historical novel. Jeannette Walls herself uses the term "novel" to describe the book in her author's note at the end of the book: "[S]ince I don’t have the words from Lily herself, and since I have also drawn on my imagination to fill in details that are hazy or missing [...] the only honest thing to do is call the book a novel."