Horse

Viking. New. New 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

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

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-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