August is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2020 by Callan Wink

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Names: Wink, Callan, author.

Title: August : a novel / by Callan Wink.

Description: New York : Random House, [2020]

Identifiers: LCCN 2019016807 | ISBN 9780812993752 (hardcover : acid-free paper) | ISBN 9780812993769 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Domestic fiction. | GSAFD: Bildungsromans.

Classification: LCC PS3623.I6626 A95 2020 | DDC 813/.6—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/​2019016807

Ebook ISBN 9780812993769

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