Our April selection is Horse by Pulitzer Prize winning author Geraldine Brooks. The title refers to Lexington, a real-life thoroughbred stallion that was the fastest runner and greatest sire of the 19th century. But the story is not so much about the horse as about the two young Black men connected to it: Jarret, a 19th century horse trainer born into slavery, and Theo, a 21st century PhD student who finds an old painting of the great stallion.
Jarret and Theo’s stories are fictional, but the themes are timeless. Horse is "a novel of art and science, love and obsession, and our unfinished reckoning with racism” (Amazon).
Brooks, a meticulous researcher…writes about our present in such a way that the tangled roots of history, just beneath the story, are both subtle and undeniable. - The Washington Post
A testament to the intelligence and humanity of animals, a stinging rebuke of racist and abusive humans, and a study of how the past gets recorded, remembered, and remade…anyone who ever grew up loving horses, anyone who dearly loves an animal, will find a cornucopia of riches in this novel. - The Boston Globe
Discussion begins April 1st. Please join us!
