The Mare

Resumen del libro

The most powerful work yet from the NBA-nominated Mary Gaitskill the story of a girl and the horse who changes everything for her. Velveteen Vargas is eleven years old, a Fresh Air Fund kid from Brooklyn living with a host family Ginger, a failed artist and shakily recovered alcoholic, and her academic husband, Paul in upstate New York. In The Mare, Gaitskill illuminates the shifting relationships between adults and child over the course of several years, as well as Velvet's encounter with the horses at the stable down the road especially with an abused, unruly mare called Fugly Girl. Filled with strong supporting characters Velvet's abusive mother, an eccentric horse trainer, a charismatic older boy who awakens Velvet's nascent passion the novel traces Velvet's journey between the vital, violent world of the inner city and the world of the small-town stable. Raw, heart-stirring, and original, in Gaitskill's hands, the story of a girl and a horse is joined with the lives of people from different races and classes trying to meet one another honestly, to staggering effect.