Shannon Pufahl’s On Swift Horse in a beautiful début novel full of emotion which tells the tale of newly married and newly orphaned Muriel who works in a diner pouring coffee, eaves-dropping on her ex-jockey and Del Mar Race Track trainer customers, and eventually secretly betting on the horses. On Swift Horses is ultimately a novel about our quest for freedom, new horizons, and love and the gamble we so often take with the human heart.