The story of a Dominican girl, the Anglo 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 and shakily recovered alcoholi...

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Main Author:	Gaitskill, Mary 1954- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York Pantheon Books [2015]
Edition:	First edition
Subjects:	Girls / Fiction Dominican Americans / Fiction Horsemanship / Fiction Dominican Americans Girls Horsemanship Upstate New York (N.Y.) / Fiction New York (State) / New York / Brooklyn New York (State) / Upstate New York Fiktionale Darstellung
Summary:	The story of a Dominican girl, the Anglo 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 and shakily recovered alcoholic, and her academic husband, Paul--who wonder what it will mean to "make a difference" in such a contrived situation. The story illuminates their shifting relationship with Velvet over 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. With strong supporting characters--Velvet's abusive mother, an eccentric horse trainer, a charismatic older boy who awakens Velvet's nascent passion--The Mare traces Velvet's journey between the vital, violent world of the inner city and the world of the small-town stable.--From book jacket
Physical Description:	441 Seiten
ISBN:	9780307379740