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.

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