August - Callan Wink

Category: General Fiction, Teen & Young Adult
Language: English
Keywords: Coming of Age Westerns

Written by Callan Wink
Read by Kirby Heyborne
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

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 12-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 even the smallest communities have dark secrets.

Covering August’s adolescence, from age 12 to 19, this gorgeously written novel bears witness to the joys and traumas that irrevocably shape us all. Filled with unforgettable characters and stunning natural landscapes, this book is a moving and provocative look at growing up in the American heartland.

Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
Release date: 03-31-20