As part of our Online Author Series\, join us for an exciting virtual chat with novelist Geraldine Brooks\, New York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "March\," "People of th e Book" and "The Secret Chord." Brooks will discuss her most recent no vel \;" Horse\," in which she tells a sweeping story of spirit\, obsession and injustice across American history. \; \;
\nKentucky\, 1850. An enslaved groom named Jarrett and a bay foal forge a bond of understand ing that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South . When the nation erupts in civil war\, an itinerant young artist who has made his name on paintings of the racehorse takes up arms for the Union. O n a perilous night\, he reunites with the stallion and his groom\, very fa r from the glamor of any racetrack.
\nNew York City\, 1954. Martha J ackson\, a gallery owner celebrated for taking risks on edgy contemporary painters\, becomes obsessed with a nineteenth-century equestrian oil paint ing of mysterious provenance.
\nWashington\, DC\, 2019. Jess\, a Smi thsonian scientist from Australia\, and Theo\, a Nigerian-American art his torian\, find themselves unexpectedly connected through their shared inter est in a horse &mdash\; 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 success.
\nBased on the remarkable true story of the record-breaking thoroughbred Lexington\, "Horse" is a novel of art and science\; love and obsession\; and our unfin ished reckoning with racism.
\nAbout the Author: Ge raldine Brooks is an author and journalist who grew up in the western subu rbs of Sydney\, Australia and attended Bethlehem College Ashfield and the University 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 bestseller\, and \;"People of the Book"&n bsp\;is a \;New York Times \;bestseller translated into 20 languag es. She is also the author of the nonfiction works \;"Nine Parts of Desire"&nbs p\;and \;"Foreign Correspondence."
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\nThis event is part of \;DBRL's \;Online Author Series\, supported by David Lile honorarium funds. A recording will also be available for later viewing on the \;author series site.
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