Complex sentence: His grandmother raised Joe after his mother abandoned him but often left him alone to go off with boyfriends; one of them, a wrangler named Woodsy Niles (Gilman Rankin), was Joe's only father figure.
Split into simpler sentences: His grandmother raised Joe after his mother abandoned him but often left him alone to go off with boyfriends. One of them, a wrangler named Woodsy Niles (Gilman Rankin), was Joe's only father figure.