When Velveteen Vargas, an eleven-year-old Fresh Air Fund kid from Brooklyn, comes to stay with a family in upstate New York, what begins as a two-week visit blossoms into something much more significant. Soon Velvet finds herself torn between her host family €”Ginger, a failed artist and shakily recovered alcoholic; and Paul, a college professor €”and her own deeply tormented mother. The one constant becomes Velvet s newly discovered passion for horse riding €”and especially for an abused, unruly mare named Fugly Girl. A stirring and deeply felt novel, The Mare is Mary Gaitskill s most poignant and powerful work yet €”a stunning exploration of a girl and her horse, and of the way we connect with people from all walks of life.

• By: Mary Gaitskill
• ISBN-13: 9780307743602
• Publication date: 10/04/2016
• Pages: 544
• Product dimensions: 5.20(w) , 7.90(h) , 1.10(d)

Vendor Style: 9780307743602