Shrewsbury Readers Book Group
Schedule
Mon, 29 Sep, 2025 at 07:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
609 Main Street, Shrewsbury, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01545 | Shrewsbury, MA
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This group is about a good book and a good discussion. Titles are selected from a variety of genres. The Shrewsbury Readers will be discussing Horse by Geraldine Brooks at their September 4th meeting. Please register and join us on September 29th at 7:00 p.m. at Oak Middle School for our Distinguished Speaker Series event with author Geraldine Brooks! Register here: https://shrewsburyma.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/distinguished-speaker-series-geraldine-brooks/
"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" (www.penguinrandomhouse.com).
Copies of the book will be available at the first floor Circulation desk for group members to check out. New members are welcome; please contact Priya Rathnam at 508-841-8537 or [email protected]
Contact
508-841-8537
Priya Rathnam, [email protected]
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