Horse

 Geraldine Brooks is the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Horse. The story is told in two time lines. Lexington is a horse who was born in 1850. This horse won nearly all the races in Kentucky. The horse was owned by a free black man but since blacks were not allowed to participate in horse racing, his employer was listed as the owner. Later the black man's son took over the care and training of the horse. Rather than  using brute force in training horses he took a gentle approach gradually building trust. The other end of the story takes place in 2019. A horse researcher comes to Washington, D.C. to investigate the bones of a horse kept in the attic at a Smithsonian Museum. As it turns out, this horse skeleton belonged to Lexington. This was a fascinating story about a horse and the people involved in it's story.