Three Days in June
A Novel
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4.4 • 24 Ratings
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Publisher Description
In this instant national bestseller by Anne Tyler that is destined to be a 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 bridal spa day. Then Gail’s ex-husband, Max, arrives unannounced on her doorstep. He has no place to stay, no suit for the wedding. Instead he has a cat (never mind that the groom is deathly allergic).
But the true crisis lands when Debbie shares with her parents a secret she has just learned about her own relationship. 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, Three Days in June is a triumphant novel full of the joys and heartbreaks of love and marriage.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Bestseller Tyler (French Braid) returns with another appealing story of an idiosyncratic family. The day before her only daughter's wedding, 61-year-old Gail Baines learns she's been passed over for a promotion at the private girls' school where she works as assistant headmistress, and that she'll soon be replaced. That afternoon, her mild-mannered ex-husband, Max, shows up at her door with a cat he's fostering, having been turned away by their daughter, Debbie, because her fiancé, Kenneth, is allergic to cats. Then Debbie tells Gail that Kenneth's unreliable sister, Elizabeth, has just claimed he had a recent fling with another woman. Debbie isn't sure if she believes Elizabeth, but Gail panics nonetheless. Still, the wedding proceeds as planned. The next day, Gail's flashbacks to her marriage with Max lead to a surprising revelation. As in Tyler's previous work, there's not much of a plot, but the pleasure is in learning how her characters tick, as Gail time and again fails to find the proper tact. By the end of the story, messy human relationships are proven to be worth all the trouble they cause. This will gratify Tyler's fans.
