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'I got obsessed with horses' — Geraldine Brooks on her novel Horse

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CHAPTER

The Smithsonian Story - A Look at White Privilege

Geraldine says she wanted to take a look at herself and be realistic about her own racial bias. She was 'a complete paintin the ass' asking lots of questions while working on the story. The smithsonian is an extraordinary place, with miles and miles of labs in suburban maryland. A room where domestic beet beetles are eating flesh off bones so that the bones can be prepared for study by scientists has been described as "ridiculous"

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