Explore Horse by Geraldine Brooks, based on the true story of a thoroughbred named Lexington. In 1850s Kentucky, an enslaved groom named Jarret forges a bond with the horse that carries them to fame in record-setting victories across the South. As the Civil War unfolds, an artist who painted the racehorse becomes a Union soldier and reconnects with them under perilous circumstances. Interwoven with related stories from 1954 and 2019, Horse is a novel of art and science, love and obsession, and our unfinished reckoning with racism.
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