Author Malcolm Brooks will be at the Holland and Terrell Libraries at 2:30 p.m. on Monday, November 7, as part of the Palouse-area Everybody Reads program (https://everybody-reads.org/) which is featuring his well-received debut novel, Painted Horses this year. Brooks will do a reading, and hold a conversation with WSU faculty, staff, students, and members of the Pullman community about the book and about writing.
Set in the 1950s, “Catherine Lemay is a young archaeologist on her way to Montana, with a huge task before her—a canyon “as deep as the devil’s own appetites.” Working ahead of a major dam project, she has one summer to prove nothing of historical value will be lost in the flood. From the moment she arrives, nothing is familiar—the vastness of the canyon itself mocks the contained, artifact-rich digs in post-Blitz London where she cut her teeth. And then there’s John H, a former mustanger and veteran of the U.S. Army’s last mounted cavalry campaign, living a fugitive life in the canyon…”
