The release date for the English version of 'Three Junes' by
Julia Glass is May 2003. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
A brilliant first book that follows the members of a Scottish family as they experience the pleasures and longings, realizations and betrayals of love in all its forms, set in Greece, Scotland, Greenwich Village, and Long Island.
Newspaper publisher and recent widower Paul McLeod visits Greece in June 1989, where he falls in love with a young American artist and considers the nuanced reality of his marriage.
Paul's death brings his three adult sons and their families back to their ancestral home six years later, in June again. The oldest, witty and contemplative homosexual guy, Fenno, tells the story of this unexpected meeting. Distant from his refined foreign existence as a Greenwich Village bookshop, Fenno is taken aback by a sequence of disclosures that jeopardize his well-laid defenses.
Four years later, in another June, Fenno meets the artist who had enthralled his father, Fern Olitsky, by coincidence on the shores of Long Island. Fern, who is now expecting, must to determine what family means to her and balance her regrets about the past against her aspirations for the future.
Three Junes creates a spellbinding portrayal of the redeeming qualities of love via writing that is full of compassion and humor.