Virtual Author Talk: Geraldine Brooks

Join us for an exciting virtual chat with the highly acclaimed and award-winning novelist Geraldine Brooks in conversation about her most recent New York Times Bestselling novel Horse.

Kentucky, 1850. An enslaved groom and a bay foal forge a bond that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. When the nation erupts in civil war, a young artist who made paintings of the racehorse takes up arms for the Union. On a perilous night, he reunites with the stallion and his groom.

New York City, 1954. Martha Jackson, a gallery owner, becomes obsessed with a nineteenth-century equestrian oil painting of mysterious provenance.

Washington, DC, 2019. A scientist and an art historian find themselves unexpectedly connected 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 success.

Based on 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.

About the Author: Australian-born author and journalist Geraldine Brooks 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 is a New York Times bestseller translated into 20 languages. She is also the author of the nonfiction works Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence.

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