Three Days in June
A svelte, finely constructed novel ... In my carping youth, I regarded the recurrent elements of Anne Tyler’s stories as a flaw. But I’ve grown to see her decades-long focus on quirky families and wounded people as no more limiting than the rules for writing a sonnet. With a sufficiently powerful microscope, a drop of water reveals the ocean.
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This is not Tyler’s best novel, nor is it her worst, though it’s closer to the bottom than to the top ... Three Days in June is the sort of novel in which characters get pretty excited about microwaving a pair of potpies ... The pages did not turn themselves, but it is good enough that I did not resent my fingers for doing the job.
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Deceivingly simple ... Lovely, intimate ... Spot on and very funny ... It suddenly all makes lovely perfect sense.
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