Geraldine Brooks

The American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in this “forceful, beautifully written” (Associated Press) collection that brings together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case. On January 19, 1920, a small group of idealists and visionaries, including Helen Keller, Jane Addams, Roger Baldwin, and Crystal Eastman, founded the American Civil Liberties Union. A century after its creation, the ACLU remains the nation’s premier defender of the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. In collaboration with the ACLU, authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman have curated an anthology of essays “full of struggle, emotion, fear, resilience, hope, and triumph” (Los Angeles Review of Books) about landmark cases in the organization’s one-hundred-year history. Fight of the Century takes you inside the trials and the stories that have shaped modern life. Some of the most prominent cases that the ACLU has been involved in—Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade, Miranda v. Arizona—need little introduction. Others you may never even have heard of, yet their outcomes quietly defined the world we live in now. Familiar or little-known, each case springs to vivid life in the hands of the acclaimed writers who dive into the history, narrate their personal experiences, and debate the questions at the heart of each issue. Hector Tobar introduces us to Ernesto Miranda, the felon whose wrongful conviction inspired the now-iconic Miranda rights—which the police would later read to the man suspected of killing him. Yaa Gyasi confronts the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education, in which the ACLU submitted a friend of- the-court brief questioning why a nation that has sent men to the moon still has public schools so unequal that they may as well be on different planets. True to the ACLU’s spirit of principled dissent, Scott Turow offers a blistering critique of the ACLU’s stance on campaign finance. These powerful stories, along with essays from Neil Gaiman, Meg Wolitzer, Salman Rushdie, Ann Patchett, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Louise Erdrich, George Saunders, and many more, remind us that the issues the ACLU has engaged over the past one hundred years remain as vital as ever today, and that we can never take our liberties for granted. Chabon and Waldman are donating their advance to the ACLU and the contributors are forgoing payment.

To mark its 100-year anniversary, the American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman to bring together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case.On January 19, 1920, a small group of idealists and visionaries, including Helen Keller, Jane Addams, Roger Baldwin, and Crystal Eastman, founded the American Civil Liberties Union. A century after its creation, the ACLU remains the nation’s premier defender of the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. In collaboration with the ACLU, authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman have curated an anthology of essays about landmark cases in the organization’s one-hundred-year history. Fight of the Century takes you inside the trials and the stories that have shaped modern life. Some of the most prominent cases that the ACLU has been involved in—Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade, Miranda v. Arizona—need little introduction. Others you may never even have heard of, yet their outcomes quietly defined the world we live in now. Familiar or little-known, each case springs to vivid life in the hands of the acclaimed writers who dive into the history, narrate their personal experiences, and debate the questions at the heart of each issue. Hector Tobar introduces us to Ernesto Miranda, the felon whose wrongful conviction inspired the now-iconic Miranda rights—which the police would later read to the man suspected of killing him. Yaa Gyasi confronts the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education, in which the ACLU submitted a friend of- the-court brief questioning why a nation that has sent men to the moon still has public schools so unequal that they may as well be on different planets. True to the ACLU’s spirit of principled dissent, Scott Turow offers a blistering critique of the ACLU’s stance on campaign finance. These powerful stories, along with essays from Neil Gaiman, Meg Wolitzer, Salman Rushdie, Ann Patchett, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Louise Erdrich, George Saunders, and many more, remind us that the issues the ACLU has engaged over the past one hundred years remain as vital as ever today, and that we can never take our liberties for granted. Chabon and Waldman are donating their advance to the ACLU and the contributors are forgoing payment.

The new novel from Pulitzer Prize-winner Geraldine Brooks, author of the Richard and Judy bestseller 'March', Sunday Times bestseller 'Year of Wonders' and 'People of the Book'.

'Brooks tracks the geography of grief with patience and grace... a lifeline to others who will find themselves in this familiar, shattered landscape of grief' Los Angeles Times'Highly recommended to those who enjoy her novels, but also to anyone who needs to remember how joy and grief can (and should) coexist' Maggie StiefvaterA heartrending and beautiful memoir of sudden loss and a journey to peace, from the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Horse.Many cultural and religious traditions expect those who are grieving to step away from the world. In contemporary life, we are more often met with red tape and to-do lists. This is exactly what happened to Geraldine Brooks when her partner of more than three decades, Tony Horwitz - just sixty years old and, to her knowledge, vigorous and healthy - collapsed and died on a Washington, D. C. sidewalk.After spending their early years together in conflict zones as foreign correspondents, Geraldine and Tony settled down to raise two boys on Martha's Vineyard. The life they built was one of meaningful work, good humor, and tenderness, as they spent their days writing and their evenings cooking family dinners or watching the sun set with friends at Lambert's Cove. But all of this came to an abrupt end when, on Memorial Day 2019, Geraldine received the phone call we all dread. The demands were immediate and many. Without space to grieve, the sudden loss became a yawning gulf.Three years later, she booked a flight to a remote island off the coast of Australia with the intention of finally giving herself the time to mourn. In a shack on a pristine, rugged coast she often went days without seeing another person. There, she pondered the varied ways those of other cultures grieve, such as the people of Australia's First Nations, the Balinese, and the Iranian Shiites, and what rituals of her own might help to rebuild a life around the void of Tony's death.A spare and profoundly moving memoir that joins the classics of the genre, Memorial Days is a portrait of a larger-than-life man and a timeless love between souls that exquisitely captures the joy, agony, and mystery of life.

Mizh doslidnitseju-avstralijkoju Dzhess i afroamerikanskim mistetstvoznavtsem Teo vinikaje zv'jazok cherez spilnij interes do konja, jakij zhiv u SSHA u KHIKh stolitti. Dzhess vivchaje kistki zherebtsja, schob bilshe diznatisja pro jogo shvidkist i vitrivalist, a Teo vidkrivaje vtrachenu istoriju chornoshkirikh vershnikiv, jaki mali virishalne znachennja v uspikhu skakuna na peregonakh.Vishukana kartina, jaku Teo vidnakhodit na smitniku, skelet na gorischi, kudi distajetsja Dzhess, ta najvelichnishij skakun v istoriji Ameriki - iz tsikh nitok laureatka Pulittserivskoji premiji Dzheraldin Bruks splitaje prigolomshlivu rozpovid pro silu dukhu, oderzhimist i nespravedlivist.Natkhnennij divovizhnoju realnoju istorijeju chistokrovnogo skakuna Leksingtona, roman "Kin" porushuje temi mistetstva j nauki, kokhannja j oderzhimosti, a takozh doslidzhuje sche ne zavershenu istoriju rasizmu.

A beautifully written, intensely personal account of grief, loss and recovery.

A New York Times Bestseller "Brooks tracks the geography of grief with patience and grace as she comes to terms with the ongoing nature of outliving the ones you love most. ... Her memoir is certainly a testament to her own unique loss, but it's moreover a lifeline to others who will find themselves in this familiar, shattered landscape of grief." --Los Angeles Times "A rich account of marriage and mourning." --Washington Post A heartrending and beautiful memoir of sudden loss and a journey towards peace, from the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Horse Many cultural and religious traditions expect those who are grieving to step away from the world. In contemporary life, we are more often met with red tape and to-do lists. This is exactly what happened to Geraldine Brooks when her partner of more than three decades, Tony Horwitz - just sixty years old and, to her knowledge, vigorous and healthy - collapsed and died on a Washington, D. C. sidewalk. After spending their early years together in conflict zones as foreign correspondents, Geraldine and Tony settled down to raise two boys on Martha's Vineyard. The life they built was one of meaningful work, good humor, and tenderness, as they spent their days writing and their evenings cooking family dinners or watching the sun set with friends at the beach. But all of this ended abruptly when, on Memorial Day 2019, Geraldine received the phone call we all dread. The demands were immediate and many. Without space to grieve, the sudden loss became a yawning gulf. Three years later, she booked a flight to a remote island off the coast of Australia with the intention of finally giving herself the time to mourn. In a shack on a pristine, rugged coast she often went days without seeing another person. There, she pondered the various ways in which cultures grieve and what rituals of her own might help to rebuild a life around the void of Tony's death. A spare and profoundly moving memoir that joins the classics of the genre, Memorial Days is a portrait of a larger-than-life man and a timeless love between souls that exquisitely captures the joy, agony, and mystery of life.

This book gives you a glimpse of life's minutiae - good and bad. One that will make you wonder and ponder.

"Brooks' chronological and cross-disciplinary leaps are thrilling." --The New York Times Book Review "Horse isn't just an animal story--it's a moving narrative about race and art." --TIME"A thrilling story about humanity in all its ugliness and beauty . . . the evocative voices create a story so powerful, reading it feels like watching a neck-and-neck horse race, galloping to its conclusion--you just can't look away." --Oprah Daily Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award - Finalist for the Chautauqua Prize - A Massachusetts Book Award Honor Book A 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 Kentucky, 1850. 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. 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. On a perilous night, he reunites with the stallion and his groom, very far from the glamor of any racetrack. New York City, 1954. Martha Jackson, a gallery owner celebrated for taking risks on edgy contemporary painters, becomes obsessed with a nineteenth-century equestrian oil painting of mysterious provenance. Washington, DC, 2019. Jess, a Smithsonian scientist from Australia, and Theo, a Nigerian-American art historian, find themselves unexpectedly connected through their shared interest in the horse--one studying the stallion's bones for clues to his power and endurance, the other uncovering the lost history of the unsung Black horsemen who were critical to his racing success. Based on the remarkable true story of the record-breaking thoroughbred Lexington, Horse is a novel of art and science, love and obsession, and our unfinished reckoning with racism.

Et kassert maleri i en skrothaug, et skjelett på et loft og den fremste veddeløpshesten i USAs historie: Av disse trådene fletter Geraldine Brooks en storslått beretning om mot, besettelse og urettferdighet i amerikanske historie. Kentucky, 1850. En slavegutt og et brunt føll knytter et vennskapsbånd; en legende skapes, hesten setter rekorder og innkassere seire over hele det sørlige USA. En omflakkende kunstmaler skaper seg et navn med bilder av den samme veddeløpshesten. Han deltar på nordstatene side da borgerkrigen bryter ut i landet. En farefull natt møter han igjen hingsten og hestepasseren, milevis unna veddeløpsbanens glans. New York City, 1954. En gallerieier som er kjent for å satse på provoserende samtidskunstnere, blir besatt av et hestemaleri fra 1800-tallet med en gåtefull opprinnelse. Washington D.C., 2019. En australsk forsker ved Smithsonian Institution og en nigeriansk-amerikansk kunsthistoriker har en felles interesse for denne hesten - den ene studerer hingstens skjelett for å forstå hvorfor den var så sterk og utholdende, den andre avdekker den tapte historien om den glemte svarte hestearbeideren som hesten ikke kunne ha gjort suksess uten. «Hest» er inspirert av den helt spesielle sanne historien om fullblodshesten Lexington, som ble USAs fremste avlshingst. Det er en historie om kunst og vitenskap, kjærlighet og besettelse, og USAs manglende oppgjør med rasismen.

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of People of the Book and March

Rokovoj 1665 god, Velikaja londonskaja chuma raspolzaetsja po strane. Vmeste s zarazhennym tjukom tkani ona popadaet v udalennuju derevushku. Bolezn perebiraetsja iz doma v dom, zhiteli derevni mogut tolko molitsja. Protivostojat napasti sposobny lish nemnogie, sredi nikh sluzhanka Anna Frit. Ne podverzhennaja zaraze, ona stanovitsja tselitelnitsej. A selchane tem vremenem perekhodjat ot molitv k okhote na vedm. Vmeste s zhenoj mestnogo svjaschennika Anna boretsja ne tolko s chumoj, no i s bezumiem, rasprostranjajuschimsja sredi zhitelej derevni. Blagodarja samootverzhennosti dvukh zhenschin god katastrofy oborachivaetsja godom chudes. Roman vdokhnovlen realnymi sobytijami, proizoshedshimi v derevne Iem v surovoj kholmistoj mestnosti Anglii. Udivitelnym obrazom eta istorija ob epidemii v poru, kogda meditsina prebyvala v zachatochnom sostojanii, rezoniruet s nashim vremenem, kogda osobenno vazhny otzyvchivost i sostradanie. Dzheraldin Bruks rasskazyvaet o tom, kak stojkost i miloserdie odnikh pomogajut ostalnym spravitsja s sueverijami, strakhami i durnymi poryvami.Perevodchik: Arestova Svetlana