The Mare is Gaitskill's most poignant and powerful work yet - the story of a Dominican girl, the Anglo woman who introduces her to riding, and the horse who changes everything for her. This is a heartbreakingly honest and profoundly moving portrait of the nearly unbridgeable gaps between people, and the way we long for fairytale endings despite knowing that they don't exist. Triumphant return of cult American novelist Mary Gaitskill.