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Based on transcribed interviews with Sonia, a horse trainer, the novel 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, pony people, hotwalkers, everybody' " with economy and integrity.
As Scanlan puts it, "I wanted to preserve 'amplify, exaggerate' Sonia's idiosyncratic speech, her bluntness, her flair as a storyteller. I arrived at what you could call a composite portrait of a self."
Whittled down with a fiercely singular artistry, Kick the Latch bangs out of the starting gate and carries the reader on a careening joyride around the inside track.
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