Priest's debut collection, Horsepower , is a cinematic escape narrative that radically envisions a daughter's waywardness as aspirational.
Across the book's three sequences, we find the black-girl speaker in the midst of a self-imposed exile, going back in memory to explore her younger self--a mixed-race child being raised by her white supremacist grandfather in the shadow of Churchill Downs, Kentucky's world-famous horseracing track--before arriving in a state of self-awareness to confron.
