SSCA Bookclub

Last Bookclub date.

Horse by Geraldine Brooks:  Barb Cerny will present.   Geraldine Brooks is an Australian writer who has worked as a foreign correspondent and has also won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her novel, March.  Horse begins in Kentucky in 1850 and follows a horse and his enslaved groom named Jarret through their lives which carries the horse to record-setting victories in the south and through the civil war. However, there are several threads of this story – the story of an itinerant young artist, a mid-20^th century gallery owner and a 21st century scientist and art historian in Washington.  So many fascinating themes are tied together in this remarkable true story of the record-breaking thoroughbred Lexington – love and obsession, art and science and the unfinished reckoning with racism.