Virtual Author Lecture – Horse Crazy

Islamorada Library is delighted to announce that acclaimed author/reporter Sarah Maslin Nir will be speaking to our patrons on Zoom about her book “Horse Crazy: The Story of a Woman and a World in Love with an Animal” on Saturday, February 6, 2021, at 2 p.m. For the Zoom invitation, please email caria-charlotte@monroecounty-fl.gov.
Per SimonandSchuster.com, “Horse Crazy” was one of USA Today’s ’20 Summer Books You Don’t Want to Miss.’ In the bestselling tradition of works by such authors as Susan Orlean and Mary Roach, a New York Times reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist explores why so many people—including herself—are obsessed with horses.
It may surprise you to learn that there are over seven million horses in America—even more than when they were the only means of transportation—and nearly two million horse owners. Acclaimed journalist and avid equestrian Sarah Maslin Nir is one of them; she began riding horses when she was just two years old and hasn’t stopped since. Horse Crazy is a fascinating, funny, and moving love letter to these graceful animals and the people who—like her—are obsessed with them. It is also a coming-of-age story of Nir growing up an outsider within the world’s most elite inner circles, and finding her true north in horses.”