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A boy coming of age in a part of the country that’s being left behind is at the heart of this dazzling novel—the first by an award-winning author of short stories that evoke the American West. LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE • “ August  reads like early Hemingway, retooled for the present.”—William Finnegan, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of  Barbarian Days Callan Wink has been compared to masters like Jim Harrison and Thomas McGuane. His short stories have been published in The New Yorker and have won numerous accolades. Now his enormous talents are showcased in a debut novel that follows a boy growing up in the middle of the country through those difficult years between childhood and adulthood. August is an average twelve-year-old. He likes dogs and fishing and doesn’t mind early-morning chores on his family’s Michigan dairy farm. But following his parents’ messy divorce, his mother decides that she and August need to start over in a new town. There, he tries to be an average teen—playing football and doing homework—but when his role in a shocking act of violence throws him off course once more, he flees to a ranch in rural Montana, where he learns that e

Who reads August : a Novel?

Author

Wink, Callan

Publisher

Random House Publishing Group

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780812993769

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Humanities

Rating

4.1 / 5 (269 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14