Join us on April 15th at 7:00 p.m. to discuss Horse, a 2022 novel by Geraldine Brooks. The novel, set in 2019, 1954, and the mid-1800s follows the story of a nineteenth-century portrait of a racehorse named Lexington. The story is told from the perspective of six characters The novel immerses the reader in the fascinating world of American horseracing and the element of race in the antebellum South from 1850 to 1861.
Geraldine Brooks is an Australian-American journalist and novelist. She was born in 1955 in Sydney, Australia and moved to New York City, obtaining her master’s degree in journalism at Columbia University. She became a foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal and covered conflicts in the Middle East, Africa, and the Balkans. She is the author of several novels, including March, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2005.