Dogs of Summer

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The exact dates of the Dog Days can vary from source to source, and because they are traditionally tied to the dawn rising of Sirius, they have changed over time. However, most sources agree that the Dog Days occur in mid-to-latesummer. Es evidente que hay partes de la trama en que es inevitable imaginar a tu familia, a tus amigos, a las tardes de verano que pasabas aburrida en casa jugando a la “genboi”. Todos podemos vernos reflejados en esos pasajes y sentir que la autora nos ha estrujado un poco el corazón. Llega un momento, sin embargo -y he ahí el motivo por el que me ha recordado a “Vozdevieja”-, que la escatología infantil que se describe en algunos capítulos me sobrepasa un poco. Ojo y repito: para mi gusto. (Que conste en acta que no soy la persona más fina del mundo, aunque no tendría que tratar de poner excusas).

The phrase “dog days” was translated from Latin to English about 500 years ago. Since then, it has taken on new meanings.

The hottest days?

Abreu’s novel, in Julia Sanches’s sparkling translation, is a revelation, perfectly capturing a festering summer of meltdowns and shrinking horizons.” En un acto político —similar a la que ejercieron Fernanda Melchor y Cristina Morales— Andrea esquiva la oficialidad del castellano, de lo canónico y estandarizado y elige la a jerga canaria para narrar esta historia. Iluminando las esquinas del lenguaje, no hablo de los márgenes. O sí, pero más hondo. La orilla de la orilla de la orilla. Dog Days are approaching; you must, therefore, make both hay and haste while the Sun shines, for when old Sirius takes command of the weather, he is such an unsteady, crazy dog, there is no dependence upon him.” Heatstroke can be the serious and often fatal result of a dog’s prolonged exposure to excessive heat. Heatstroke usually occurs when high ambient temperature overcomes the dog’s ability to dissipate heat. The degree of damage is determined by how high a temperature is reached and how long the animal is exposed. Below are the signs of heatstroke and the actions you should take if your dog is overcome.

Dogs of Summer was out of my comfort zone, and despite that, I could simply not put it down. I don't think it is a book that one likes or dislikes.It feels more like a book that has you on a chokehold unable to move away. Shit as the narrator does hold on to you with her vivid storytelling peppered with expressions typical of the vernacular spoken in Tenerife that the translator Julia Sanches left for us to savor. Like the tide. A force of nature. It drags you. It submerges you. And, all of a sudden, it leaves you stranded on a rich and prophetic insular world of women and low, grey, clouds that merge with the sea. It is pure poetry. A book that carries you and makes you feel a place Lejos de caer en el error de hablar de la amistad adolescente desde la mirada adulta y formada, Andrea Abreu es capaz de destripar una amistad hermosa y sucia, siempre real, llena de idealización, de celos y de rencillas como son la mayoría de las amistades en ese momento de la vida. Me ha gustado la forma en la que ha tratado la asimetría de algunas amistades: esas relaciones de poder y admiración en el que siempre uno guía y el otro sigue, en el que siempre uno está al sol y el otro a la sombra. Me ha hecho pensar en Lila y Lenù, y esa es una de las mejores referencias que me pueden venir en cualquier momento a la cabeza. The story covers little snippets from a summer in the early aughts, with focus on minute details from our 10 year old narrator’s complicated friendship with a girl from her neighborhood named Isora. For example, a chapter could be called “Jesus’s Little Head,” which is a small detail of an engraving on the headboard of her friend’s dead mother, and the story is about an early childhood lesbian experience. Shit and Isora are rarely apart. Isora lives with her grandmother following her mother’s suicide and Shit spends her days following Isora’s lead on everything. Despite being a constant source of troublemaking, Shit idolizes her peer for her carefree attitude and that she is further developed (increasingly drawing the interest of boys). Shit does anything Isora asks and often has little of herself outside the friendship which begins to become more intimate and sexual.Although July and August are often the hottest months of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, the hottest period can vary from year to year. And depending on your latitude, the astronomical dog days can come at different times. This means that the dog days of ancient Greece aren’t the dog days of today. It also means that several millennia from now, this astrological event won’t even occur during the summer. Abreu] provides a unique perspective into romantic feelings buried within a friendship. Much like Edn"’Brien’s The Country Girls, Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend, and Lorrie Moore’s Who Will Run theFrog Hospital?, the novel is a portrait of the intensity of love, desire, and frenzied obsession at such a pivotal age." It is June and our ten-year-old heroine is sad. She knows she will not get to leave her neighbourhood that summer, and the beach is far, far away. And that clouds like the bottom of a donkey’s belly will hover all summer over her town, high among the volcanoes of northern Tenerife. But she has a best friend, Isora.

This frank exploration of the work of growing up as a girl in a place with limited horizons (don’t forget the clouds!) illuminates while it disturbs. This is not Little Women." Panza de burro» o «Mar de nubes» dependiendo donde esté ubicado quien observe, se le dice en las Islas Canarias a una masa nubosa que se forma en verano y actúa como una suerte de pantalla solar. Avoid exposing your dog to hot asphalt or sand, which can burn their paws, for any prolonged period.

Keep Your Dog Safe in the Water

Like the portrayals of girls in Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels, Abreu offers brave and unvarnished renderings of complicated female friendships, painful sexual awakenings (with an LGBTQ twist), and gritty dialects, but she is in a category by herself. Her prose is bold and direct, and her characterization of two similar but different girls on the cusp of adolescence is as vivid as anything being written today.”