GERALDINE BROOKS / BROOKS, GERALDINE
Kentucky, 1850. An enslaved groom and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across tie South. When the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant artist who has mid his same on paintings of the racehorse takes up arms for the Union. On a peg might, he reunites with the stallion and his groom, very far from the
Fang racetrack.
New York City, 1954. A gallery owner coin?
egrisks on edgy
contemporary painters becomes obsessed with a
eury equestrian
oil painting of mysterious provenance.
Washington, DC, 2019. A Smithsonian scier
ChAr stralia and a Nige-
rian American art historian find themseives unes posedly connected through their shared interest in the horse-one studying the stallion's bones for clues to his speed and andurance, the other uncovering the lost history of the unsung Black horsemen who were critical to his racing success.
Inspired by the remarkable true story of the record-breaking thoroughbred Lexington, Horse is a novel of art and science, love and obsession, and our unfinished reckoning with racism.