![]() ![]() Being the outsider allows her access to different experiences at times, and she still acknowledges her privilege. Interwoven with these stories of horses owned and visited – and it’s amazing just how many horses one can be given, gratis I also loved her tales of leasing out horses to pay for their own old age/the upkeep of other horses – is her own story of survivor guilt and feeling out of place in the fancy horse world as the daughter of a man who escaped the Holocaust for a new life in the US in childhood, an over-achiever married to another one, his first crop of sons ignoring their little sister for much of her life. This is how she has been able to include horses from around the US and the world as well as her own stories of her own horses in this fascinating and absorbing (but I’ll quickly say: not upsetting) book.Įach chapter is named after a horse that has been in her life, but they are all celebrated, the stories about them concentrate on their lives and, where they are no longer with us, the fact is smoothed over and not dwelled upon (I know there are other animal lovers out there who worry about such things). ![]() Sarah Maslin Nir is a staff reporter for the New York Times who, by her own admission, has sought out horses wherever she’s travelled to write a story. ![]()
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