A review by brooke_review
August by Callan Wink

3.0

Head to Big Sky Country in Callan Wink's poignant coming of age novel, August, named after the title character, who sets off on his own after high school to make a life for himself on a ranch in Montana. August, a quiet and descriptive novel about a young man forging a life in a beautiful, yet barren land, devoid of those particulars that are usually of a young man's fancy, namely women, will appeal mostly to male readers and those who enjoy westerns. I found this book to be quite masculine in tone, with a reserved, stoic narrator and several instances of hunting and/or death, as well as many passages going into great detail about working the land and using machinery. With that said, this book fell outside of my preferred tastes, but may be quite insightful and meaningful to the right reader.