Dogs of Summer

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The unforgettable girls at the center of Andrea Abreu’s moving debut are two of the liveliest fictional creations I’ve come across in quite a long time.

Juanita Banana told us one time that his brother said the men at Bar de Antonio did drugs there, and even though I didn’t really know what drugs were or what they were good for, when Isora and Juanita talked about it I always said yeah, this place is crawling with drugs. 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. It is possible that Saint Roch, the legendary medieval patron saint of dogs celebrated by the Catholic Church on 16 August, owes some of his legacy to the dog days. Dogs of Summer is a perfect summer novel that follows two best friends as they come of age and theirfriendship begins to simmer with desire and violence.

In music, there are Head of David's " Dog Day Sunrise", covered by Fear Factory in 1995; Florence and the Machine's 2009 " Dog Days Are Over"; [49] and Within Temptation's 2013 "Dog Days"; as well as the album Dog Days by the US southern rock band Atlanta Rhythm Section; in the title track from Taylor Swift's 2020 album Evermore, Bon Iver, who is featured on the song, mentions "the violence of the dog days".

It is the summer of 2005, and the two best friends are living in a working class village in the Canary Islands. Told exclusively from Shit’s perspective, we find ourselves completely immersed in the obsessions and naiveties of a precocious ten-year-old. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. This frank exploration of the work of growing up as a girl in a place with limited horizons (don’t forget the clouds!When they aren’t jointly dreaming of walking three hours to the beach, they are logging into chat rooms and exchanging messages with random people.

The ones that belonged to the younger people who worked in the South in construction and cleaning hotels, the ones with the shiny bee-em-dub-yous in metallic blue, metallic red, and metallic yellow with carriages that hugged the ground, so low that when they drove up through the neighborhood they left half their car bits behind them, and played “Pobre diabla” at full blast and “Agüita” and “Mentirosa” and “Una ráfaga de amor” at full blast and “Felina” a gazillion times at full blast. Infektiot Yleisempiä Mätäkuussa [Infections Common in the 'Rotten Month']", Duodecim; Laaketieteellinen Aikakauskirja (in Finnish), 125 (13): 1415–20, PMID 19678497 . Andrea turns up a notch, or turns it up ten times, in this rescue of poetic tremendismo (expressionist dirty realism). As a child I was always very impressed by the fact that my mother had to clean other people's houses while those people went on vacation. In the same section, Isora “was my best friend i wanted to be like her,” and Shit wants to “suck up isora’s head so I’d have her inside my body.As much as she desires her, however, the narrator also wants to preserve their innocence, sensing that her friend is growing up at a pace that eclipses her: “Isora was somewhere else, I realized, somewhere I couldn’t even see the beginning of, and for a second I felt scared. Chela was at the counter and heard the clatter coming from the room beneath the minimarket, where Isora was rummaging for a pair of old sneakers. Synge, Edmund John Millington (1909), Poems and Translations, Dublin: Dundrum , excerpted by the University of Toronto Library. Readers will be unable to resist the spell of Dogs of Summer, a hilarious, devastating story that is brilliantly attuned to the erotics of friendship, the intoxicating muddle of identification and desire, and the power of both the sublime and the profane. It is the last remnant of savagery and sensuality before we are completely cut off from our connection with our body, our hunger, [and] our desire.

During one oppressively hot summer, the 10-year-old narrator and her best friend Isoraexperience changes in their bodies and their volatile emotions — from love to jealousy, admiration,obsession and submission. It's transgressive enough, I suppose, but it didn't really seem to be in service to any kind of storytelling that demanded or deserved it. Dadurch das es ein sehr dünnes Buch ist, dachte ich, dass jedes Kapitel eine anziehende Story beinhalten würde: allerdings hat sich das Buch sehr gezogen.Reminiscent of Marieke Lucas Rijneveld’s The Discomfort of Evening, Abreu’s writing twirls and clacks with tactile precision, like winding a cassette tape with a No.