
'I got obsessed with horses' — Geraldine Brooks on her novel Horse
ABC RN Arts
The Story of the Skeleton
Geraldine is a braided narrative, and it's set in three time periods. And i knew when i heard the story that it have the capacity to have a contemporary thread, which would be about the science at the smithsonian. It's just intriguing to me how people add to our knowledge through science. So i knew there'd be a contemporary threat at this misonian...and then therss this out of the blue comes the story of a painting of the horse, which has a whole mystery around it. Yet it's pretty incredible.
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