Can I read Aug 9 - Fog on EtoBox?

Aug 9 - Fog by Scanlan, Kathryn, 1980- author is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Aug 9 - Fog about?

A stark, elegiac account of unexpected pleasures and the progress of seasons Fifteen years ago, Kathryn Scanlan found a stranger's five-year diary at an estate auction in a small town in Illinois. The owner of the diary was eighty-six years old when she began recording the details of her life in the small book, a gift from her daughter and son-in-law. The diary was falling apart--water-stained and illegible in places--but magnetic to Scanlan nonetheless. After reading and rereading the diary, studying and dissecting it, for the next fifteen years she played with the sentences that caught her attention, cutting, editing, arranging, and rearranging them into the composition that became Aug 9--Fog (she chose the title from a note that was tucked into the diary). "Sure grand out," the diarist writes. "That puzzle a humdinger," she says, followed by, "A letter from Lloyd saying John died the 16th." An entire state of mourning reveals itself in "2 canned hams." The result of Scanlan's collaging is an utterly compelling, deeply moving meditation on life and death. In Aug 9 -- Fog , Scanlan's spare, minimalist approach has a maximal emotional effect, remaining with the reader long after

Who reads Aug 9 - Fog?

Author

Scanlan, Kathryn, 1980- author

Publisher

New York: MCD/Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374106874

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

4.3 / 5 (53 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14