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The Mare

2017 Longlist

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.

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About the author

Mary Gaitskill is the author of the story collections Bad Behavior, Because They Wanted To (nominated for a PEN/Faulkner Award), and Don’t Cry, and the novels Veronica (nominated for a National Book Award) and Two Girls, Fat and Thin. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, and her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Esquire, The Best American Short Stories, and The O. Henry Prize Stories.

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Complex and challenging characters illuminate this story of the best (white liberal) intentions gone awry. When a well-to-do woman opens her home to an underprivileged Dominican girl, her self-congratulations are overwhelmed by obsession, guilt and confusion.

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Author

Mary Gaitskill

Country

US

Nominating Library

Multnomah County Library, Portland, USA

Publisher

Pantheon Books, USA

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