Three Junes

An astonishing first novel that traces the lives of a Scottish family over a decade as they confront the joys and longings, fulfillments and betrayals of love in all its guises.

In June of 1989 Paul McLeod, a newspaper publisher and recent widower, travels to Greece, where he falls for a young American artist and reflects on the complicated truth about his marriage. . ..Six years later, again in June, Paul's death draws his three grown sons and their families back to their ancestral home. Fenno, the eldest, a wry, introspective gay man, narrates the events of this unforeseen reunion. Far from his straitlaced expatriate life as a bookseller in Greenwich Village, Fenno is stunned by a series of revelations that threaten his carefully crafted defenses. . .. Four years farther on, in yet another June, a chance meeting on the Long Island shore brings Fenno together with Fern Olitsky, the artist who once captivated his father. Now pregnant, Fern must weigh her guilt about the past against her wishes for the future and decide what family means to her. In prose rich with compassion and wit, Three Junes paints a haunting portrait of love's redemptive powers.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 04/22/2003
ISBN: 9780385721424
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.16w x 0.78d

Review Citations: New York Times 05/04/2003 pg. 28
BookPage 06/01/2003 pg. 25
People Weekly 10/20/2008 pg. 51
People Weekly 04/21/2014 pg. 55