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FREE HHoorrssee RReevviieeww digital & print For the Love of Horses VOL. 31 • NO. 6 The Mid-South Equine Newsmagazine Since 1992 FEBRUARY 2021 2. February, 2021 • ©Mid-South Horse Review • www.midsouthhorsereview.com ON THe C OVeR : february 2021 Buddy, a farm-owned Quarter Horse at Riverdale Horse Review Farms in Fayetteville, Tennessee with two of the farm’s CONTeNTS • V OL . 31 • N O. 6 boarded horses. ( photo by Beate Kuska, Riverdale Farms Equus Charta, LLC manager and trainer ) Copyright 2019 6220 greenlee #4 P.o. Box 594 Arlington, tn 38002-0594 901-867-1755 PuBLiSHeR & e diTOR : Tom & dr. Nancy Brannon STAFF : Andrea Gilbert WeBSiTe : www.midsouthhorsereview.com e- MAiLS : midsouthhorsereview@ yahoo.com [email protected] P. 6 P. 22 Tink, “Vanity’s Mighty Tink,” Ash - Gus the Haflinger, owned by Amanda Paint Horse at the Coyote Run Win - ley Fant’s remarkable school horse. McGee, hunt horse with Oak Grove ter Series show. ( photo by Gary Cox ) (photo by Ashley Fant ) Hunt. 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February, 2021 • ©Mid-South Horse Review • www.midsouthhorsereview. com book nook you may wonder how animals on their Perestroika in Paris own, especially horses who have only known the care and feeding from humans Review by Nancy Brannon and being housed in a cozy stall, can man - Perestroika – that’s a word we haven’t age to find sufficient food to sustain them. heard since the mikhail gorbachev era in Fortunately, there are several humans in the 1980s. it literally means restructuring the area who willingly give food to them, or reforming the economic and political plus the dog and raven are good at clean - system. But in Jane smiley’s 31st book, ing up the scraps that people leave behind. published in December 2020, Perestroika, But most importantly, Paras left the stable aka “Paras,” is the name of a thorough - with her groom’s purse, with quite a bit of bred racehorse who lives just outside money inside. since Frida has experience Paris. one night, the spirited and curious buying food for Jacques, she takes a bit of filly finds her stall door open, walks out, money to the butcher and the greengrocer, and wanders her way into the city. buying food for herself and Paras. “Born of a whim during a visit to Paris one morning Frida encounters a young over a decade ago, this book ‘was entirely boy, Ėtienne (8), who cares for his great- a fantasy,’ said ms. smiley, 71. she hopes grandmother, who is not quite yet 100 it offers ‘a distraction’ to all the stress of years old, but she is blind and deaf – 2020. madame Ėveline de mornay. it is not long i asked Jane smiley how she came to until Paras and raoul meet the boy, and use the name Perestroika in the title. she Paras eventually makes her way into his Author Jane Smiley riding “Paras,” answered, “that is Paras’s official name. house, into the grand salon. it is in aka Perestroika. Her sire is moscow Ballet. i liked the madame de mornay’s house that we meet (photo courtesy Jane Smiley ) sound of it.” the thoroughbred character ters in this book, all living around Paris’ the two black, fat rats: father and son con - in the book is patterned from her own champs de mars. if you haven’t been to rad and kurt. the rats are very good at points of view, as represented by the vari - horse – Paras. Paris, you will find the illustrated map on cleaning up crumbs and left-over food ous animals. And she helps us understand she describes Paras as “an interesting the inside book cover helpful, as you fol - around the house. the longing for freedom and not being con - and idiosyncratic horse (very curious). i low the roaming of the various animals in Frida had learned from Jacques the tra - fined, as we humans who are so used to thought she might be the one to escape.” their assembled “group.” And you will dition of christmas gift giving (and re - being confined in our buildings find hard smiley told me that she has “two [horses] read French phrases throughout the book, ceiving), so in the week before christmas, to understand. the novel celebrates cu - that i bred, Paras and ned (see my yA se - so if you have not learned the language, she goes to Jérôme, a shopkeeper, to pur - riosity, ingenuity, and the desire of all ries about ellen and ned – the first one is keep your dictionary handy. chase several offerings for etienne and creatures for true love and freedom. called Riding Lessons ) and one that i have there’s Paras the horse, of course, who Paras, and gets a ball for herself. “Ėtienne Bobrow summarizes the book well: taken over from his previous owner, first meets Frida, a german shorthaired took Paras straight to the cuisine (French “ostensibly set in the 21st century, this Frankie.” Her horses “live at boarding es - pointer who has been left on her own for kitchen), where he had filled her bowl meringue of a novel (an interesting turn of tablishments in our area.” smiley rides when her homeless human caretaker, with apples, carrots, and a pear. He petted phrase) is wholesomely timeless, full of “sort of dressage, but nothing fancy,” she Jacques, dies. then she meets raoul the her on the neck, rested his head against her good intentions and happy endings that says. “i used to jump (and so did they).” raven – ahem, “sir raoul corvus corax, shoulder. He seemed happier than Paras feel far removed from the problems of the emily Bobrow, in The Wall Street Jour - the twenty-third of that name,” who lives had ever seen him. over and over, he said, moment.” nal , writes about author Jane smiley’s re - on the rue Benjamin-Franklin, speaks “merry christmas, my dear. What a merry Find more about author Jane smiley at lationship with horses: “every horse, she seven languages, knows all about a vari - christmas this one is!” Penguin random House: www.penguin - explains, has its own fascinating personal - ety of animals including their latin names, the new year brings changes for this randomhouse.com/authors/28760/jane- ity, its own idiosyncratic way of being in and definitely has a bird’s-eye view of the little band of diverse animal friends, even smiley/ the world. it just comes naturally to me to larger scheme of things. there are the as they grow closer together, along with Source : give them a point of view,” says smiley. mallards sid and nancy, living on the their supporting cast of humans who feed Bobrow, emily. 2020. “novelist Jane you will meet some interesting charac - north pond at the champ de mars. them and enjoy their company. smiley smiley Has a soft spot for Happy end - teaches us to listen to and respect different ings.” The Wall Street Journal . 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