First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros

Every Tuesday, I'll be posting the opening paragraph (sometimes maybe a few) of a book I decided to read based on the opening paragraph (s). Feel free to grab the banner and play along.  This week's selection releases today. It's an author I've so enjoyed in the past: 

 Home; Toni Morrison

" They rose up like men. We saw them. Like men they stood.

We shouldn't have been anywhere near that place.  Like most farmland outside Lotus, Georgia, this here one had plenty of scary warning signs.  The threats hung from wire mesh fences with wooden stakes every fifty or so feet.  But when we saw a crawl space that some animal had dug--a coyote maybe, or a coon dog--we couldn't resist.  Just kids we were.  The grass was shoulder high for her and waist high for me so, looking out for snakes, we crawled through it on our bellies.  The reward was worth the harm grass juice and clouds of gnats did to our eyes, because there right in front of us, about fifty yards off, they stood like men.  Their raised hooves crashing and striking, their manes tossing back from wild white eyes.  They bit each other like dogs but when the stood, reared up on their hind legs, their forelegs around the withers of the other, we held our breath in wonder.  One was rust-colored, the other deep black, both sunny with sweat.  The neighs were not as frightening as the silence following a kick of hind legs into the lifted lips of the opponent.  Nearby, colts and mares, indifferent, nibbled grass or looked away.  Then it stopped.  The rust-colored one dropped his head and pawed the ground while the winner loped off in an arc, nudging the mares before him."

 Would you keep reading?