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Dogs Of Summer (Panza de burro): A Novel
Andrea Abreu, Julia Sanches (translation)“Andrea Abreu’s writing hand is neither soft nor measured. It punches through the film of language & lands, hard, on concrete. Julia Sanches’ translation of Abreu’s novel does not stop or stifle the forcefulness of this punch.”
My Brilliant Friend meets Blue is the Warmest Color in this lyrical debut novel set in a working-class neighbourhood of the Canary Islands - a story about 2 girls coming of age in the early aughts & a friendship that simmers into erotic desire over the course of 1 hot summer.High near the volcano of northern Tenerife, an endless ceiling of cloud cover traps the working class in an abject, oppressive heat. Far away from the island’s posh resorts, 2 girls dream of hitching a ride down to the beach & escaping their horizonless town.
It’s summer, 2005, & our 10-year-old narrator is consumed by thoughts of her best friend Isora. Isora is rude & bossy, but she’s also vivacious & brave; grownups prefer her, & boys do, too. That's why sometimes she gets jealous of Isora, who already has hair on her vagina & soft, round breasts. But she's definitely not jealous that Isora’s mother is dead, nor that Isora's fat, foul-mouthed grandmother has her on a diet, so that she is constantly sticking her fingers down her throat.
Besides, she would do anything for Isora: gorge herself on cakes when her friend wants to watch, follow her to the bathroom when she takes a shit, log into chat rooms to swap dirty instant messages with strangers. But increasingly, our narrator finds it hard to keep up with Isora, who seems to be growing up at full tilt without her—& as her submissiveness veers into a painful sexual awakening, desire grows indistinguishable from intimate violence.
Braiding prose poetry w/ bachata lyrics & the gritty humour of Canary dialect, Dogs of Summer is a story of exquisite yearning, a brutal picture of girlhood & a love song written for the vital commun...
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