{"product_id":"august-we-carry-what-we-bury-paperback-1","title":"August: We carry what we bury - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eIan Hanes\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eROSE CARTER\u003c\/strong\u003e is dead, but her gaze endures. From the quiet edges of the afterlife, a sharp-tongued, big-hearted Black girl watches the man who loved her, the child who will inherit her absence, and the hidden threads linking Kansas to Beirut and Baghdad.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAUGUST HARPER\u003c\/strong\u003e, once a rising basketball star, abandons his future after Rose's death and retreats to the family farm, carrying a grief that hardens into silence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen an infant boy, \u003cstrong\u003eJohn\u003c\/strong\u003e, is left on his porch, August raises him with the same tenderness and restraint that shaped his own life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcross the world, \u003cstrong\u003eLAYLA\u003c\/strong\u003e, an Iraqi-Lebanese woman shaped by dictatorship, war and displacement, builds a life in Beirut until the 2020 port explosion forces her to confront her own buried grief.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold through shifting perspectives that move from a Kansas cornfield to a Baghdad street to a Beirut hospital, August: We Carry What We Bury is a novel about the threads that bind us across\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econtinents and griefs. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt asks whether love can outlast death - and whether the dead, in watching, can still change the lives of the living.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers of The House of Broken Angels and The God of Small Things, this is a story for anyone who has ever lost someone and wondered if they were still seen. Rose is watching.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe question is whether August and Layla can feel her there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 266\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 26, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53752267211059,"sku":"9798950750250","price":32.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/VCrRoDoqce9798950750250_5ae38c32-88cd-447c-9284-d0ce7a53a9cc.webp?v=1785286380","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/august-we-carry-what-we-bury-paperback-1","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}