#28 in Literary fiction
Three Days in June
- 176
- Pages
- about 3 h
- Reading time
- NYT bestseller · 1 week on the list
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Our view
“Three Days in June” is a short, warm Anne Tyler novel, wry and generous towards its heroine. Gail, never at ease with people, loses her job the day before her daughter’s wedding, and then her ex-husband Max arrives needing a bed, a cat in tow. Some readers find real comedy in it. At under two hundred pages, it is a gentle, hopeful book about looking back on a marriage.
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About the book
A new Anne Tyler novel and instant classic: a socially awkward mother of the bride navigates the days before and after her daughter's wedding. 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.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.7 across 53 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 27% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Literary fiction average of 8.1. That is how 8.0 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 7.7 | 53 | 100% |
Frequently asked
How long is Three Days in June?
It has 176 pages — shorter than 95% of the ranked books in Literary fiction.
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