A Girl and Her Horse

Some things can't be explained. A horse that chooses you is one of them. Nine-year-old Wary has a nickname pulled from the tail of her name, a father who says more with silence than words, and a mother who left on a Tuesday in the rain and never turned around to wave. She has a farm on the edge of southern Cebu, a view of Bohol on clear days, and a life that is mostly okay - until a thoroughbred mare named Feathers comes down a truck ramp and looks straight at her.
She isn't allowed to love the horse too much. Everyone says so. She is going to love the horse too much. A Girl and Her Horse is a tender, quietly luminous story about a girl learning to fall off horses, into grief, through fear, and to get back up every time. Set against the red-dirt roads and sea-salt air of the Philippine south, it is a book about the things we carry from the people who leave, and the unexpected ones who stay.