A review by abbie_ohara
Dogs of Summer by Andrea Abreu

4.0

Abject and provocatively salacious. I feel like the burgeoning lewdness of sexuality is only awarded to coming of age stories about young men. I liked this element — also the confusion between friendship and attraction in close female friendships is my fave theme. I liked the intensity of the setting, impoverished and desolate to a melancholy extent. The theme of hoping/reaching for something better was really clear through the beach metaphor. I also liked the lack of agency in the narrator and the exploration of the inability for children to either understand their emotions, understand when something bad has happened, or understand how to interact with these event/feelings. I think the author captured well how children process things in their minds and bodies