{"id":4485,"date":"2022-10-07T15:45:01","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T15:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/?post_type=mec-events&p=4485"},"modified":"2022-10-07T15:45:01","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T15:45:01","slug":"author-talk-with-geraldine-brooks-horse","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/events\/author-talk-with-geraldine-brooks-horse\/","title":{"rendered":"Author Talk with Geraldine Brooks: Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Saturday, October 22, at 3pm, join us at the West Tisbury Library for an author talk with Pulitzer Prize-winner Geraldine Brooks. Geraldine will read from her newly released novel, <\/span>Horse<\/span><\/i>. Books will be available to purchase from Bunch of Grapes Bookstore. This event is free and open to the public.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Geraldine Brooks is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel <\/span>March<\/span><\/i> and the international bestsellers <\/span>The Secret Chord<\/span><\/i>,<\/span> Caleb\u2019s Crossing<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>People of the Book<\/span><\/i>, and <\/span>Year of Wonders<\/span><\/i>. She has also written the acclaimed nonfiction works<\/span> Nine Parts of Desire<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>Foreign Correspondence<\/span><\/i>. Born and raised in Australia, Brooks lives on Martha\u2019s Vineyard.<\/span><\/p>\n

About the book:<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cBrooks\u2019 chronological and cross-disciplinary leaps are thrilling.\u201d \u2014The New York Times Book Review<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>Horse<\/span><\/i> isn\u2019t just an animal story\u2014it\u2019s a moving narrative about race and art.\u201d \u2014TIME<\/span><\/p>\n

A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kentucky, 1850. An enslaved groom named Jarret and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. When the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young artist who has made his name on paintings of the racehorse takes up arms for the Union. On a perilous night, he reunites with the stallion and his groom, very far from the glamor of any racetrack.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

New York City, 1954. Martha Jackson, a gallery owner celebrated for taking risks on edgy contemporary painters, becomes obsessed with a nineteenth-century equestrian oil painting of mysterious provenance.<\/span><\/p>\n

Washington, DC, 2019. Jess, a Smithsonian scientist from Australia, and Theo, a Nigerian-American art historian, find themselves unexpectedly connected through their shared interest in the horse\u2014one studying the stallion\u2019s 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.<\/span><\/p>\n

Based on the remarkable true story of the record-breaking thoroughbred Lexington, <\/span>Horse<\/span><\/i> is a novel of art and science, love and obsession, and our unfinished reckoning with racism.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Saturday, October 22, at 3pm, join us at the West Tisbury Library for an author talk with Pulitzer Prize-winner Geraldine Brooks. Geraldine will read from her newly released novel, Horse. Books will be available to purchase from Bunch of Grapes Bookstore. This event is free and open to the public.\u00a0 Geraldine Brooks is the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4486,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"mec_category":[],"class_list":["post-4485","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/4485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mec-events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4485"},{"taxonomy":"mec_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_category?post=4485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}