On a perilous night, he reunites with the stallion and his groom, very far from the glamor of any racetrack. 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. 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. “ Horse isn’t just an animal story-it’s a moving narrative about race and art.” - TIMEĪ discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history “Brooks’ chronological and cross-disciplinary leaps are thrilling.” - The New York Times Book Review Woman of Light is a transfixing novel about survival, family secrets, and love-filled with an unforgettable cast of characters, all of whom are just as special, memorable, and complicated as our beloved heroine, Luz. Written in Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s singular voice, the wildly entertaining and complex lives of the Lopez family fill the pages of this multigenerational western saga. In the end, it is up to Luz to save her family stories from disappearing into oblivion. She bears witness to the sinister forces that have devastated her people and their homelands for generations. Luz recollects her ancestors’ origins, how her family flourished, and how they were threatened. As Luz navigates 1930s Denver, she begins to have visions that transport her to her Indigenous homeland in the nearby Lost Territory.

Luz “Little Light” Lopez, a tea leaf reader and laundress, is left to fend for herself after her older brother, Diego, a snake charmer and factory worker, is run out of town by a violent white mob. There is one every generation, a seer who keeps the stories.

ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022- The Millions, Electric Lit, Lit Hub, Book Riot

“Sometimes you just step into a book and let it wash over you, like you’re swimming under a big, sparkling night sky.”-Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere and Everything I Never Told You.

A dazzling epic of betrayal, love, and fate that spans five generations of an Indigenous Chicano family in the American West, from the author of the National Book Award finalist Sabrina & Corina.

Bedroom Eyes by Lesléa Newman