![]() ![]() ![]() Yet none of this seems forced or perfunctory. Chapters set in the 19th century are therefore richly populated and dense with talk of emancipation, sedition and corruption. Brooks expertly stages the larger one of the Civil War. Above all, she makes us both impatient to see and fearful to learn what might befall Theo, the black graduate student who rediscovers the painting, and, centuries earlier, Jarret, the enslaved horseman whose story forms the heart of the novel. Brooks’s almost clairvoyant ability to conjure up the textures of the past and of each character’s inner life. This layout may seem a little too neat-and, indeed, the symmetry of the novel’s interlocking plots might well have dulled its emotional effect were it not for Ms. ![]()
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