# Dogs of Summer - Hardcover

by **Andrea Abreu** (Author), **Julia Sanches** (Translator)

**"\[A\] firecracker of a debut . . . Abreu's novel, in Julia Sanches's sparkling translation, is a revelation, perfectly capturing a festering summer of meltdowns and shrinking horizons."  
\--_The New York Times_**

_My Brilliant Friend_ meets _Blue is the Warmest Color_ in this lyrical debut novel set in a working-class neighborhood of the Canary Islands--a story about two girls coming of age in the early aughts and a friendship that simmers into erotic desire over the course of one 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, two girls dream of hitching a ride down to the beach and escaping their horizonless town.

It's summer, 2005, and our ten-year-old narrator is consumed by thoughts of her best friend Isora. Isora is rude and bossy, but she's also vivacious and brave; grownups prefer her, and boys do, too. That's why sometimes she gets jealous of Isora, who already has hair on her vagina and 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--and as her submissiveness veers into a painful sexual awakening, desire grows indistinguishable from intimate violence.

Braiding prose poetry with bachata lyrics and the gritty humor of Canary dialect, _Dogs of Summer_ is a story of exquisite yearning, a brutal picture of girlhood and a love song written for the vital community it portrays.

### Author Biography

Andrea Abreu was born in 1995 in Tenerife, Spain. In 2021, _Granta_ named her one of the best Spanish writers under the age of 35. _Dogs of Summer_, her debut novel, will be translated into 16 languages and adapted for the screen by El Estudio.

**Number of Pages:** 192

**Dimensions:** 0.9 x 7.1 x 5.1 IN

**Publication Date:** August 02, 2022

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