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A review by kritikanarula
Three Days in June by Anne Tyler
4.0
This is my first Anne Tyler book! I came across people raving about her writing in a writing workshop last year, and I knew I had to pull it up on my TBR. Then NetGalley and the publisher kindly offered an ARC, and I am so glad things fell into place. Because all the rumors are true! Anne's writing really is heartwarming, and everything I had been told about her stories and writing style stood up.
I read this novella (?) in a day. It was laced with humour, meditative in parts, and still intriguing enough to keep you turning the pages. It's the story of a divorced couple who find themselves in close quarters in preparation for their daughter's wedding. That's the simple premise. Around it are caricaturish characters, tug-at-your-heartstring moments, and the companionable familiarity of shared history. I absolutely loved seeing a mother who wasn't all "sorted" but rather a socially inept mess.
This novel is in the same space for me as Claire Keegan's writing. Brilliant observations of the minutiae, a breezy storyline, and super realistic characters.
Favourite Quotes:
That’s something you forget when you’ve been on your own awhile: those married-couple conversations that continue intermittently for weeks, sometimes, branching out and doubling back and looping into earlier strands like a piece of crochet work.
Anger feels so much better than sadness. Cleaner, somehow, and more definite. But then when the anger fades, the sadness comes right back again the same as ever.
But children veer out from their parents like so many explorers in the wilderness, I’ve learned. They’re not mere duplicates of them.
I read this novella (?) in a day. It was laced with humour, meditative in parts, and still intriguing enough to keep you turning the pages. It's the story of a divorced couple who find themselves in close quarters in preparation for their daughter's wedding. That's the simple premise. Around it are caricaturish characters, tug-at-your-heartstring moments, and the companionable familiarity of shared history. I absolutely loved seeing a mother who wasn't all "sorted" but rather a socially inept mess.
This novel is in the same space for me as Claire Keegan's writing. Brilliant observations of the minutiae, a breezy storyline, and super realistic characters.
Favourite Quotes:
That’s something you forget when you’ve been on your own awhile: those married-couple conversations that continue intermittently for weeks, sometimes, branching out and doubling back and looping into earlier strands like a piece of crochet work.
Anger feels so much better than sadness. Cleaner, somehow, and more definite. But then when the anger fades, the sadness comes right back again the same as ever.
But children veer out from their parents like so many explorers in the wilderness, I’ve learned. They’re not mere duplicates of them.