Dogs of Summer

Nothing else matters in the world of Dogs of Summer other than what these two girls mean to each other. Every crushing, toxic, excruciating, loving, difficult and unboundaried female friendship came hurtling back to me in a tumultuous wave while reading this book, all the sores and salves of a coming-of-age relationship are here in details that feel almost too sacred to be told, but universalised in their telling. I have a new favourite writer, I will read everything she writes. I love it, I love it, I love it! – Rachael Allen, author of God ComplexBold, dazzling, hilarious. Andrea Abreu is a lively meteorite in the landscape of Hispanic Literature – Fernanda Melchor, author of International Booker-shortlisted Hurricane SeasonLike 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 – Pilar QuintanaRazor sharp and mesmerizing, Dogs of Summer will thump through your heart and mind. A novel that consumes and sentences to die for – Amina Cain, author of IndelicacyAndrea Abreu’s characters, like her sentences, are bold and wild. Reminiscent of Marieke Lucas Rijneveld’s The Discomfort of Evening, Abreu’s writing twirls and clacks with tactile precision, like winding a cassette tape with a No. 2 pencil. I’ll return to Dogs of Summer whenever I crave a searing, brutal shot of life – Gabriella Burnham, author of It is Wood, It is StoneI am overwhelmed. What a marvelous book, what a miracle – Sara Mesa, author of Among the HedgesAndrea turns up a notch, or turns it up ten times, in this rescue of poetic tremendismo (expressionist dirty realism). A political book: for the world that has never been given a voice before, and most of all for the phonetical shamelessness, for the syntactical violence, for the incorrectness, the localisms, the linguistic variety, because Andrea Abreu writes for her body and from her body – Marta SanzIt describes the state of things without beating around the bush giving way to the purest form of tenderness, innocence, and care … It intertwines the feeling of the first love with the pain that comes with growing up – Brenda Navarro, author of Empty HousesDogs of Summer weaves a powerful narrative, where bodies and hunger take over the story. It transports us to the threshold of puberty, to face a disturbing procession of fears, euphoria and daily violence. An unsweetened and unprejudiced portrait of poverty. Pure life – Irene Vallejo, author of PapyrusShit. My brain just exploded. What a marvel – Marta OrriolsThis slim novel’s scope and intensity are shockingly, magnificently large, and the sentences blast off the pages with all the sordidness and wonder of early adolescence. Readers will be unable to resist the spell of Dogs of Summer, a hilarious, devastating story that is brilliantly attuned to the erotics of friendship, the intoxicating muddle of identification and desire, and the power of both the sublime and the profane. The unforgettable girls at the center of Andrea Abreu’s moving debut are two of the liveliest fictional creations I’ve come across in quite a long time – Jamel Brinkley, author of A Lucky ManAndrea Abreu’s characters, like her sentences, are bold and wild. Reminiscent of Marieke Lucas Rijneveld’s The Discomfort of Evening, Abreu’s writing twirls and clacks with tactile precision, like winding a cassette tape with a No. 2 pencil. I’ll return to Dogs of Summer whenever I crave a searing, brutal shot of life – Gabriella Burnham, author of It is Wood, It is StoneDogs of Summer shows girlhood as it really was: brutal and tender, intimate and lonely, magical and utterly gross. I loved it – Anna Beecher, author of Here Comes the Miracle

Andrea Abreu (Tenerife, 1995) studied journalism at La Laguna University and moved to Madrid in 2017 to study a masters. She is a regular contributor for Tentaciones-El Pais, LOLA (BuzzFeed), Vice, Zenda and Quimera, among others. Her debut novel, Panza de Burro, was first published in Spain to great acclaim. In 2021, Andrea Abreu was included in Granta’s new selection in a decade of the Best of Young Spanish Language Novelists.