An enslaved groom in pre-Civil War Kentucky bonded to a young foal; a painting discarded in a junk pile; a modern-day Australian scientist and a Nigerian American art historian.

Only the most skillful of writers could weave these threads into a compelling story of art and science, love, obsession and our ongoing reckoning with racism. But again and again, both as a journalist and novelist, Pulitzer Prize winner Geraldine Brooks has demonstrated just that sort of skill, a distinctive ability to bridge the past and the present, the “exotic” and the familiar with characters who feel instantly — surprisingly — familiar.

Brooks’s first book, Nine Parts of Desire, made her an international bestselling author. That success continued when she turned to historical fiction, as she moved seamlessly from a village struck by the bubonic plague to the challenges of girl children left behind by an absent father during the Civil War; from a fictional account of the Sarajevo Haggadah to the life of the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College and now, with Horse, the true story of the record-breaking 19th-century thoroughbred, Lexington.

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