Three Days in June - Anne Tyler

Three Days in June

By Anne Tyler

  • Release Date: 2025-02-11
  • Genre: Family Fiction & Literature
Score: 4
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From 323 Ratings

Description

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 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.

“What a treat.” —Washington Post

“Simply exquisite.” —Liane Moriarty

“Nobody understands human nature better than Tyler. And nobody understands the complexities of love the way she does.” —Boston Globe

Three Days in June is like reading a hug.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune


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.

Reviews

  • Not worth the time…

    3
    By NovelReader76
    Uninteresting story. I kept waiting for something important to happen, but it never did. The protagonist merely recounts each day at an unnecessary level of detail, with no real plot line, no twists or turns, no revelatory surprises. At the end, my thought was, “So what?” At least it was relatively short book.
  • I liked it alot

    5
    By Flydini
    I am an Anne Tyler fan so I enjoy everything she writes. This book is like others in that there is humor and a study of ordinary people living ordinary lives.
  • Not worth it

    3
    By 7letter
    Written at an 8 th grade level Could have been shorten for an essay in the New Yorker