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The Mare

3.6/5 ( ratings)

The story of a Dominican girl, the white woman who introduces her to riding, and the horse who changes everything for her

Velveteen Vargas is eleven years old, a Fresh Air Fund kid from Brooklyn. Her host family is a couple in upstate New York: Ginger, a failed artist on the fringe of Alcoholics Anonymous, and Paul, an academic who wonders what it will mean to “make a difference” in such a contrived situation. The Mare illuminates the couple’s changing relationship with Velvet over the course of several years, as well as Velvet’s powerful encounter with the horses at the stable down the road, as Gaitskill weaves together Velvet’s vital inner-city community and the privileged country world of Ginger and Paul.

Language: English

Pages: 441

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Pantheon

Release: November 03, 2015

ISBN: 0307379744

ISBN 13: 9780307379740

The Mare

3.6/5 ( ratings)

The story of a Dominican girl, the white woman who introduces her to riding, and the horse who changes everything for her

Velveteen Vargas is eleven years old, a Fresh Air Fund kid from Brooklyn. Her host family is a couple in upstate New York: Ginger, a failed artist on the fringe of Alcoholics Anonymous, and Paul, an academic who wonders what it will mean to “make a difference” in such a contrived situation. The Mare illuminates the couple’s changing relationship with Velvet over the course of several years, as well as Velvet’s powerful encounter with the horses at the stable down the road, as Gaitskill weaves together Velvet’s vital inner-city community and the privileged country world of Ginger and Paul.

Language: English

Pages: 441

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Pantheon

Release: November 03, 2015

ISBN: 0307379744

ISBN 13: 9780307379740

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