August: We carry what we bury

ROSE CARTER 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.

AUGUST HARPER, 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.

When an infant boy, John, is left on his porch, August raises him with the same t...