Three Days in June
Three Days in June ~ Anne Tyler
Three Days in June is the story of Gail Baines, who is fired the day before her daughter’s wedding (or maybe she quits, it’s one of those conversations). Her ex-husband, Max, is in town for the wedding and shows up unannounced to stay with her, bringing a rescue cat that he hopes she will want to adopt. In the span of three days, secrets come out, new wounds are inflicted, old wounds are healed.
Gail is the standard prickly character that you will find in an Anne Tyler novel. She has feelings and thoughts, she just doesn’t express them. When she sees her daughter in her wedding dress, she thinks to herself that her daughter is so stunning, she should be a model in a fancy bridal magazine. What she says is, “You look nice.” She is also prone to thoughts like, “Someday I’d like to get credit for not saying all the things I could have said” and “Sometimes when I find out what’s on other people’s minds I honestly wonder if we all live on the same planet.” (Kind of relatable, right?)
This is a quick book, under 200 pages, and the audiobook is under 4.5 hours. If you have a bit of time, and enjoy Tyler’s books, I recommend this one. It’s not my favorite of her books, but it’s still time well spent.
4 Comments
Jenny
Ooh! I just got this from the library! I’m excited to read it- I haven’t read an Anne Tyler in a long time.
J
I hope you enjoy it!
PocoBrat
The last Anne Tyler I read was _Clock Dance_.
I was so irritated that she had exactly two black women characters in it (in a novel set in Baltimore, which is 60% black!). And those two were an “angry” nurse and principal (if I’m remembering right). The rest of her characters were, by default, white, I suppose? There were no friends, colleagues, relatives, acquaintances, or people you randomly speak to, who aren’t white in the rest of the novel…
That’s super weird, to put it mildly.
J
I don’t think I’ve read Clock Dance, or even heard of it. I don’t think there are any black characters in this Baltimore based novel either. Now I’m trying to remember whether I’ve ever noticed a black character in one of her books. Not that I can think of.