The Sport of Kings
C.E. Morgan (4th Estate)
Henry Forge and his daughter, members of a great Kentucky racing dynasty, are breeding a champion. But when a young black man fresh out of prison comes to work for them, the violence of the Forges’ history and their exigencies of appetite are brought starkly into view.
A spiraling tale of wealth and poverty, racism and rage, this is an unflinching portrait of lives cast in shadow by the enduring legacy of slavery.
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