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Kathryn Scanlanās Kick the Latch is the testament of Soniaāa horse trainer, a racetrackerāwho tells her story in taut vignettes, each of which contains more person, more world, more life, than a dozen pages of most contemporary novels. And what a world it is. Bruising, and brutal, where physical pain and severe injury are commonplace, a world shaped by violence and addiction, a tight-knit itinerant world of trainers, grooms, jockeys, owners, gamblers, racing secretaries, vets, and, of courseāat the centre of it allāthose enormous, enigmatic, empathetic beasts . . . horses.
A work of fiction, based on interviews with a real-life Sonia, Kick the Latch thrums with a kind of hyper-authenticity, cracking open a closed society, placing a marginal life at its centre, and provoking a profound resonance between Soniaās very specific struggles and joys and our own.
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Kathryn Scanlan is the author of The Dominant Animal andĀ lives in Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in NOON, Granta and Fence, and is forthcoming in The Paris Review. Her story āThe Old Millā was selected by Michael Cunningham for the 2010 Iowa Review Fiction Prize. She has degrees in painting, writing, and English from the University of Iowa and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her debut novel, AUG 9āFOG, a literary adaptation of a found diary, was published by FSG in 2019.
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