Publisher's Synopsis
Sometimes heartbreaking, often hilarious, Nita Horns exquisitely told and inspiring memoir of a poor little girls dreams of horses and where that love could lead is a triumph of loss and survival, sacrifice, devotion, acceptance, forgiveness, and finally, success.s a child, Nita escaped the demands of the day by sitting on her flying carpet with a small bag of cheap plastic animal toys and her sister, Althia, while they imagined themselves visiting exotic farms and locales to rescue and heal. But when tragedy struck Nita at the age of thirteen and her sister and father were taken from her in a car accident, she wondered if there was anything left to believe in. Personally decimated, her already fractured life came apart at the seams. Nitas motherwho also nearly died from the accidentfloundered with depression and loss. Nita dejectedly followed wherever each day would lead, struggling with identity, confidence, and self-imageuntil the day she met a charmingly flawed young man. He was a self-confident, cocky loner. Yet, he believed in her and her dreams. Together, they would spend their next decades overcoming obstacles and testing commitments, finding true love, faith, ministry, and the miracle of healingfor her as well as for others. From devastation to tenderness, from humor to warmth, from surviving poverty to discovering an invisible God who has a plan for all our lives, No Fences is an intimate and revealing narrative of losing dreams, getting them back, and the faith journey in between.
