Horse
Horse Racing, Freedom, and History Author: Geraldine Brooks What do a record-breaking thoroughbred; a dusty, forgotten skeleton in a museum’s storage; a discarded painting; a thesis about a young artist’s depiction of Black grooms pre-Civil War; and a young couple’s tumultuous interracial relationship have to do with each other? In Horse author Geraldine Brooks oscillates between the past and the present to bring readers an epic story about horses and the fraught racial history of Black trainers and grooms in America’s history of horse racing. It’s a story with a huge scope, ranging from present-day Australia to Kentucky in the 1850s, [...]
