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Three Junes by Julia Glass is an evocative, multi-layered work of contemporary fiction that traces the intricate connections within a Scottish family over a decade of love, loss, and unexpected revelations. Spanning Greece, Scotland, Greenwich Village, and Long Island, this luminous debut novel delicately weaves together stories of grief, identity, and the resilience of the human heart.
In the summer of 1989, recent widower Paul McLeod travels to Greece, seeking solace after his wife’s death and unexpectedly falling for a young American artist. Six years later, Paul’s passing reunites his three grown sons at their family home in Scotland. Fenno, the introspective eldest, finds himself unravelling long-held secrets and confronting truths about his own carefully ordered life as a New York bookseller. Then, in another June four years on, a chance encounter on a Long Island beach ties their stories together, as Fern Olitsky — the artist Paul once loved — faces her own reckonings about family, forgiveness, and the future.
Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction in 2002, Three Junes is a tender, beautifully crafted meditation on love in its many forms, perfect for readers who appreciate character-driven, emotionally intelligent storytelling.
