Riding Barranca: Finding Freedom and Forgiveness on the Midlife Trail
"... Chester saddles up for a memoir related to her love of horses ... [S]he consistently manages to pull in the reins on "the beauty and silence of nature" that lift her and other midlife riders." —Publisher's Weekly"[A] journey — both geographical and metaphorical — surveyed through the high-up lens of a wise woman on horseback; one whose greatest solace and joy stem from her daily jaunts through known and unknown territory." —Nichole Dupont,ruralintelligence.com"From the start Chester is very good at completely drawing the reader into her world .... [T]hese are ... explorations of both the external environment ... and an internal environment she becomes more in touch with while on horseback."  —Goodhorsekeeping.com"[T]he author, struggling with her mother's descent into Alzheimer's disease, spent a year on horseback, experiencing the healing beauty and silence of nature, and gaining 'some understanding for the complexity of family.'"—Lone Star Horse Report