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“Fluently translated from the Spanish, this absorbing novel with a Holdenesque narrator delivers a raw and arresting new voice in literature.”

—BOOKLIST (starred review)

“Dazed with grief, a young woman pours her heart out to a beloved friend who committed suicide, in a stream of consciousness that scatters the page with the ashes of home, popular songs, horrific news items, movie plots, pets, vermin, and exes. In this pitch-perfect performance of a chilly autumn homecoming in Patagonia, Jennifer Croft conjures a millennial voice that is raw and utterly real.”

—ESTHER ALLEN, translator of Zama

“August is enviable in its unpretentiousness, feminism, and intelligence. I texted photos of almost every page to my friends. I wanted to live inside of August, and am now Romina Paula’s biggest fan.”

—CHLOE CALDWELL, author of I’ll Tell You in Person

“In Romina Paula’s August, the narrator addresses us as ‘you,’ the missing person, in an urgent, generous, often funny voice rife with confidences, reminiscent of an adolescent sharing important, whispered truths for the first time. This novel breathes with feverish life.”

—MAXINE SWANN, author of Flower Children

“This hyperlocal and/yet global tale of the lonely pressures of womanhood and loyalty bristles against sentimentality while insisting how much we must turn to language to realize emotion. August’s confessions are rinsed in the waters of the intellect and give a large purchase on readers’ imaginations: a book of deft fury and defter beauty.”

—JOAN NAVIYUK KANE, author of Milk Black Carbon