Rain or Shine
A Family Memoir
The daughter of a rodeo announcer, raised between arenas and the wreckage of her parents' marriage.
Cyra McFadden was raised on the rodeo circuit by Cy Taillon, the sport’s most famous announcer, and a mother who had danced in vaudeville, and she spent her childhood being handed between them and their successors. The memoir is affectionate about her father and entirely unsentimental about what the arrangement cost, which is a difficult balance to hold for two hundred pages.
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Thomas Mallon
This reminiscence of an itinerant childhood in the American West, by the daughter of a rodeo announcer and onetime vaudeville dancer, manages to be both wistful and clear-eyed.
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