What difference can three days make in a lifetime? Gail Baines is about to find out. First, she learns she won't be getting the promotion she feels she deserves. It seems her people skills are lacking. She has not been invited to her daughter's pre-wedding spa day. Then her ex-husband shows up at her door the day before the wedding, with a cat in tow no less, and says he has nowhere else to stay. He doesn't have a suit either. The icing on the cake is what her daughter reveals about her fiancé. The wedding is now in question.
While THREE DAYS IN JUNE, by Anne Tyler, is a short book, it is packed with a wealth of memories. Gail is an interesting woman who on the surface would be easy to ignore. She is blunt, and direct and doesn't engage in small talk. However, for those willing to look beneath the surface, she is much more than that. Her quirky ex-husband Max might be written off as being hapless, but that would be a mistake.
THREE DAYS IN JUNE is a story that gives readers a window into Gail's and Max's marriage and family. Candid and witty, it is a story about realizations, perceptions, honesty and the power of unexpected reunions. It is well worth reading.
A new Anne Tyler novel destined to be an instant classic: a socially awkward mother of the bride navigates the days before and after her daughter's wedding.Gail Baines is having a bad day. To start, she loses her job—or quits, depending on whom you ask. Tomorrow her daughter, Debbie, is getting married, and she hasn’t even been invited to the spa day organized by the mother of the groom. Then, Gail’s ex-husband, Max, arrives unannounced on her doorstep, carrying a cat, without a place to stay, and without even a suit.But the true crisis lands when Debbie shares with her parents a secret she has just learned about her husband to be. It will not only throw the wedding into question but also stir up Gail and Max’s past.Told with deep sensitivity and a tart sense of humor, full of the joys and heartbreaks of love and marriage and family life, Three Days in June is a triumph, and gives us the perennially bestselling, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer at the height of her powers.
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