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On the reading this weekend: Rebecca Huntley’s antidote to inaction, How to Talk About Climate Change in a Way That Makes a Difference and the transformational new novel from Edna O’Brien, Girl.August is Callan Wink’s tale of a teenager on the run, a young girl finds herself road-tripping unexpectedly in outback Australia in Cath Moore’s Metal fish, Falling Snow and the story of a man’s mentalunravelling is told in Luke Horton’s The Fogging. Let’s dive into the selection.6August, the eponymous hero of Callan Wink’s debut novel, receives his fair share of unwanted advice. Mostly from other men, mostly about women. He does his level best to forget it all and strike out on his own.Like Wink’s previous stories, August is set in the open expanse of the American midwest. It begins on the family dairy farm and follows characters from his short story “Breatharians” – teenage August, father Darwin, and mother Bonnie. His father wants him to carry on at the farm; his mother wants him to go to college. Young Augie is happy with his job killing stray cats, a dollar a tail.
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Violence erupts throughout. While at school August witnesses a near fatal stabbing; while at a party he witnesses a sexual assault. Trying to avoid a fight he runs his friend over with his car. Another friend dies in Iraq. Fed up, August heads west.He eventually ends up at the Virostok ranch in Montana. All around is sky and silence and August takes solace in his work. He explores the local area alone, hunts alone, fishes alone. Wink has a precise, clear prose style and these quieter moments are finely rendered: he has the hunter’s attentive appreciation of his surroundings. The landscape is a character in itself – well-known, but changeable.