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From an award-winning poet comes this riveting, gorgeous memoir about a young runaway, the trauma that haunted her as an adult, and the friendship with a horse that finally set her free.When she was eleven years old, Rita began to run away. Her father's violence and her mother's hostility drove her out of the house and into the streets in search of a better life. This soon led her into a dangerous world of drugs, predatory older men, and the occasional kindness of strangers, but despite the dangers, Rita kept running. One day she came upon a field of horses galloping along a roadside fence, and the sight of them gave her hope. The memory of their hoofbeats stayed with her. Rita survives her harrowing childhood to become a prize-winning writer and the wife of a promising surgeon.



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Rita Zoey Chin

Rita Zoey Chin is the author of the widely praised memoir, Let the Tornado Come. Hailed by The Huffington Post as a "euphoric ode to the human spirt" and by Oprah. com as a "powerful story to pass onto a friend," Let the Tornado Come was named a Boston Globe "Summer Reads" pick, one of Kirkus Reviews' "10 True Stories Perfect for Summer Reading," an Elle Readers Prize pick, and one of Flavorwire's "10 Nonfiction Books That Will Make You Smarter. "Zoey holds an MFA from the University of Maryland, has taught at Towson University, and currently teaches at Grub Street in Boston, as well as at retreats and conferences near and far. Some of her other writing can be found in Guernica, Tin House, Blackbird Review, NY Arts Magazine, Marie Claire, and Flash Fiction America (W.W. Norton & Company, forthcoming in February 2023) . Her first novel, The Strange Inheritance of Leah Fern, is forthcoming from Melville House in October 2022.



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