A gripping literary novel from a striking new voice in American fiction. New York City. By day, JT Savage is a labourer on the Upper East Side; by night an insomniac in an East Village tenement. His had been a superficially normal childhood in Yonkers, New York; a time of beers by the river, of working in his friend's father's garage, of studying to go to college. Then, one night, everything changed. ' August & then some' is a taut & gripping family drama, in which horrifying secrets kept between father & daughter, & mother & son, explode during one tragic night. Set over the course of two summers, it is a novel of revenge & the difficulty of repentance & forgiveness. Jaggedly beautiful & intensely realised, tightly plotted yet expansive, this debut novel is the coming-of-age of a striking new voice in American fiction.