Until August opens Goodreads in a new tab

Ana Magdalena Bach sits alone beside the lagoon waters contemplating men at the hotel bar. She has been happily married for twenty-seven years and has no reason to escape her life with her husband and children. And yet, every August, she travels by ferry to the island where her mother is buried, and for one night takes a new lover. Across sultry Caribbean evenings full of salsa and boleros, lotharios and conmen, Ana journeys further each year into the hinterland of her desire and the fear hidden in her heart. A meditation on freedom, regret and the mysteries of love.