![]() ![]() ![]() Horse deftly reveals the long-term effects of history, depicting the continuities of the brutal treatment of African Americans in the United States during the era of slavery and its deadly manifestations today. These are animated through Brooks’ exquisite character construction. Indeed, this is a novel that explores and exposes real historical figures and actual conditions, events and forces. As the reader discovers in the potted biographies of a dozen or so historical figures Brooks has provided, the scaffolding is a robust and complex structure. ![]() She refers to these elements as the “factual scaffolding” for her novel. Brooks offers a richly textured, intricately developed narrative about that magnificent horse, his trainer, the artist who painted them, and those who restored the skeleton of the great creature in a museum many years later. ![]()
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