The MareThe Mare
a Novel
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Book, 2016
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<b>One of the Best Books of the Year</b><br><i>The New York Times</i> • <i>The Washington Post</i> • NPR • <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i> • <i>Vanity Fair</i> • <i>Milwaukee Journal Sentinel</i> • <i>Kansas City Star</i><br><br>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, <i>The Mare</i> 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.
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- New York : Vintage Contemporaries/Vintage Books, 2016, c2015.
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