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Geraldine Brooks

Horse: A Novel

By Geraldine Brooks - Published 2022

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Brooks succeeds gloriously at creating a love letter to thoroughbred horses, racing, and the beauties of antebellum Kentucky, and passably well at creating ...Read Review

The Secret Chord

By Geraldine Brooks - Published 2015

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Literary

King David needs little introduction to those raised in the Judeo-Christian faiths (he’s also a prophet of Islam), but readers without any ...Read Review

Caleb’s Crossing

By Geraldine Brooks - Published 2011

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Biographical Fiction Literary

Twelve-year-old Bethia Mayfield was raised in a God-fearing colonial household on what is now Martha’s Vineyard, off the Massachusetts coast. It is ...Read Review