Brooks braids a sweeping story of spirit\,
obsession\, and injustice across American history.
Kentucky\, 1850. An enslaved groom named Jarret and a bay foa l forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-settin g victories across the South. When the nation erupts in civil war\, an iti nerant young artist who has made his name on paintings of the racehorse ta kes up arms for the Union. On a perilous night\, he reunites with the stal lion and his groom\, very far from the glamor of any racetrack.
\nNe w York City\, 1954. Martha Jackson\, a gallery owner celebrated for taking risks on edgy contemporary painters\, becomes obsessed with a nineteenth- century equestrian oil painting of mysterious provenance.
\nWashingt on\, DC\, 2019. Jess\, a Smithsonian scientist from Australia\, and Theo\, a Nigerian-American art historian\, find themselves unexpectedly connecte d through their shared interest in the horse--one studying the stallion's bones for clues to his power and endurance\, the other uncovering the lost history of the unsung Black horsemen who were critical to his racing succ ess.
\nBased on the remarkable true story of the record-breaking tho roughbred Lexington\, Horse is a novel of art and science\, love and obses sion\, and our unfinished reckoning with racism.
\nAustralian-born G eraldine Brooks is an author and journalist who grew up in the Western sub urbs of Sydney\, and attended Bethlehem College Ashfield and the Universit y of Sydney. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in fiction in 2006 for her novel March. Her first novel\, Year of Wonders\, is an international best seller\, and People of the Book is a New York Times bestseller translated into 20 languages. She is also the author of the nonfiction works Nine Par ts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence.
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