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Horse Crazy by Sarah Maslin Nir6/23/2023 Throughout the book, Nir remembers horses she owned-e.g., Amigo and Willow-and how they eased the pain of a lonely childhood. As a girl, she writes, “the perfect plastic replicas called Breyer model horses were my solace and fixation.” Nir’s study of horse icons in the American imagination led her to travel to the two Virginia coast islands, Chincoteague and Assateague, that served as the setting for Marguerite Henry’s beloved book Misty of Chincoteague. Her journey then took her to Kentucky, where she visited a yearly gathering of the Breyer model horse collectors. The author returned to a place she would often go as a child-the American Museum of Natural History-to see the remains of this proto-horse. She begins with the dawn horse, the predecessor of the modern equine. In her debut book, Nir weaves “the lifelong dialogues I’ve had with these animals” into a narrative about her life as a horse lover. Equines became her source of comfort as she grew up “outsourced to…nannies” and feeling like an outsider in the world of wealth she inhabited. A New York Times staff reporter profiles horses and horse lovers across the country while delving into her own lifelong passion.īorn into an upper-middle-class Jewish family, Nir began riding horses when she was 2.
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