Three Days in June: A Novel [J0319]

2025 HCDJ in Gift-Worthy condition. 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.

From recent Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "This little story is a joy. That characters are real, the circumstances familiar, everything is genuine to the finest detail. Poignant, funny, maddening."; "Small but perfectly formed. Touching and tender. Undramatic until finely written moments of drama when the main character is suddenly spontaneous."; "It explores poignant themes like marriage, forgiveness, second chances and empty nest syndrome, without ever feeling preachy. It was also a masterclass in characterization - Gail and Max, and even Debbie, were all complex, fully developed characters who felt real and whose actions and decisions came across as authentic (even when I wholeheartedly disagreed with them). "