{"product_id":"dogs-of-summer-book-andrea-abreu-9781662601590","title":"Dogs of Summer","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy Brilliant Friend\u003c\/i\u003e meets \u003ci\u003eBlue is the Warmest Color\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHigh 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt's summer, 2005, and our ten-year-old narrator is called Shit--a pet name given to her by her best friend Isora. Isora is bossy, but she's also vivacious and brave; grownups prefer her, and boys do, too. Sometimes Shit gets jealous of Isora, who already has hair on her vagina and soft, round breasts. But Shit is definitely not jealous that Isora's mother is dead, nor that her fat, foul-mouthed grandmother has her on a diet so that she's constantly sticking her fingers down her throat. Besides, Shit would do anything for Isora: gorge herself on cakes so she can watch, follow her to the bathroom when she takes a shit, log into chat rooms to swap dirty instant messages with strangers. But Shit finds it increasingly hard to keep up with Isora, who seems to be growing up at full tilt without her--and as Shit's submissiveness veers into a painful sexual awakening, desire grows indistinguishable from intimate violence. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBraiding prose poetry with bachata lyrics and the gritty humor of Canary dialect, \u003ci\u003eDogs of Summer \u003c\/i\u003eis a story of exquisite yearning, a brutal picture of girlhood and a love song written for the vital community it portrays.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50286451261713,"sku":"CIN166260159XVG","price":4.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50398140465425,"sku":"CIN166260159XG","price":7.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52963812770065,"sku":"GOR014671419","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/166260159X.jpg?v=1751311081","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/dogs-of-summer-book-andrea-abreu-9781662601590","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}