Kick the Latch
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Kathryn Scanlan's Kick the Latch vividly captures the arc of one woman's life at the racetrack-the flat land and ramshackle backstretch; the bad feelings and friction; the winner's circle and the racetrack bar; the fancy suits and fancy boots; and the "particular language" of "grooms, jockeys, trainers, racing secretaries, stewards,âŚ
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Iâve never read anything quite like Kathryn Scanlanâs Kick the Latch. Crafted from interviews conducted with a woman named Sonia whoâs worked in Americaâs itinerant and hardscrabble horse racing industry all her life, itâs not quite a memoir, but it reads like one.
I love how Scanlan doesnât waste time explaining jargon or inserting herself as an interlocutorâreading this book feels like meeting Sonia herself without any intermediary or filter. Itâs impossible to tell whatâs direct from the interview transcripts and whatâs Scanlanâs artistic intervention because all of it rings so true.
Thatâs what makes this book so fascinating toâŚ
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