Translated by Julia Sanches. 'Andrea Abreu is a lively meteorite in
the landscape of Hispanic Literature' Fernanda Melchor 'I am
overwhelmed. What a marvellous book, what a miracle' Sara Mesa It
is June and our ten-year-old heroine is sad. She knows she will not
get to leave her neighbourhood that summer, and the beach is far,
far away. And that clouds like the bottom of a donkey's belly will
hover all summer over her town, high among the volcanoes of
northern Tenerife. But she has a best friend, Isora. And she likes
everything about Isora. The colour of her arms and her hair and her
eyes. Her handwriting and the way she writes the letter g with a
huge tail. The way she calls her Shit because poop is a beautiful
thing like the mist round the pines. But she envies her too. Envies
her grits and gut. The way she talks to grown-ups. The fact that
she has got her period and pubes on her minky. As the summer goes
on, she finds it increasingly hard to keep up with Isora - growing
up at full tilt without her. When the narrator's submissiveness
veers into obsession, desire becomes indistinguishable from
intimate violence. Braiding prose poetry with bachata lyrics and
the gritty humour of Canary dialect, Dogs of Summer is a brutal
picture of girlhood in the nineties and a story of a friendship
that simmers into erotic desire over the course of one hot summer.
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