Wow Wow Wow - I was not sure what to expect as I have not read any previous works by Anne Tyler - but this book is magic. I want to jump into the pages and just give Gail a hug. The writing of this story was warm and capturing, and you felt what the characters felt.

The story of love. I just love how these characters came back to each other. It shows us that our stories are over after they fail. Sometime we just have to step away and then take a second look at what we really want. A super quick fun read.

This book rivals "The Accidental Tourist" for being one of Tyler's finest novels. Intricate depiction of main characters with actions, not "tells". The book spans 30+ years in the three days of the daughter's wedding, an interwoven story line which only the best authors can do. The reader gets to know Gail and her ex-husband Max intimately and cares what happens to them. Lots to discuss in a book club. Loved this book, will read again. One of my favorite authors and one of the best writers.
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This was a delightful read covering a wedding over a three day period. The emotions during an event like this are complicated and the author did a really nice job of giving everyone their own point of view. So often a story is slanted towards individual characters but I found that each had their legitimate feelings and concerns addressed allowing the reader to come to their own conclusions. I really love a book where the author lets me decide how to feel. Dealing with future in jaws, ex husbands , the bride and groom themselves, family and friends can be a minefield during these emotional events and I enjoyed navigating myself thru the event. Highly recommend

Three Days in June is a laugh-out-loud novel by Anne Tyler about relationships, couples, and family dynamics. Tyler writes from the perspective of Gail Baines, a very relatable senior with a deadpan personality.

Gail’s life is a mess. In just three days, she quits her job, her daughter is getting married, and her ex-husband shows up with a cat, planning to stay with her. Her daughter Debbie doesn’t even invite Gail to a special pre-wedding girls’ spa day. When Debbie reveals a secret before the wedding to her parents, Gail hints at a bigger secret she’s kept all these years.

I love Tyler’s books that poke fun at familiar subjects, such as weddings, in-laws, and difficult relationships. Three Days in June is an enjoyable, entertaining, and quick read. I thank NetGalley for allowing me to read and review Three Days in June. #NetGalley #Three Days in June #Womensfiction

It’s been a while since I’ve read an Anne Tyler novel, and her writing is funnier than I remembered.

In this short novel, Gail starts her day losing her job as a school administrator. It’s the weekend of her daughter’s wedding, and she comes home to find her ex-husband waiting for her. He couldn’t stay where he intended to because he has a cat that he’s sure Gail will want to rescue. She wants neither a cat nor her ex-husband.

The novel covers the day of the wedding and the day after. I really liked Gail, who is 61 and socially awkward in a lot of ways. Her observations made me chuckle. The last few lines brought tears.

NetGalley provided an advance copy of this novel, which RELEASES FEBRUARY 11, 2025.

4.5 stars 🌟 At a recent author event, I asked Liane Moriarty, who some of her go-to authors are when she reads. She mentioned Anne Tyler twice during her response. When I saw that Anne Tyler had a new book coming out, I didn't hesitate to request an advance reader's copy. Three Days in June centers around Gail, whose only child Debbie is getting married and takes place over her wedding weekend. It focuses on Gail, her daughter, her mother, and her ex-husband. There is a misunderstanding between the bride and groom, which brings Gail's past to the surface as she comes to realizations that shape her future. The book is such a treat, and Tyler makes you feel that you are reading about dear friends and tells a beautiful story with incredibly crafted characters, witty and insightful prose, and extraordinary insight into human nature. I loved this book and am in awe of how she made me so invested in the story and characters in under 200 pages. Many thanks to NetGalley, Knopf, and Anne Tyler for an advance reader's copy in exchange for my honest review.

I really enjoyed this book. It follows Gail as she participates in the wedding ceremony of her only daughter, Debbie. Her ex husband (Max) arrives at her door with a foster cat and he's impossible not to love.

I found Gail to be a very relatable character. I loved her relationship with her mother, and the banter with her ex husband Max.
This is a character driven story, not a lot happens, but I was completely fine with that. I loved the back story of Gail and Max and their choices that caused a ripple affect.
I'm left wondering how Debbie and Kenneth's marriage will do. And I love the hope that we see for Gail. I want her to find happiness.

I unfortunately did not love this book. I did see it had an overall rating of over four stars when I downloaded it, but it wasn’t for me.

Gail’s daughter Debbie is getting married to Kenneth. Gail’s ex-husband Max is also in town and ends up staying with Gail the wedding. Debbie runs to her parents regarding a cheating scandal, but will it be resolved? Will they get married?

I struggled to even write this review, it was just boring and plain. Almost a DNF for me.

Three Days in June is a sharp, laugh-out-loud ride through family drama and second chances. Gail, an awkwardly endearing mom facing a job loss and the unwelcome return of her ex, gets blindsided when her daughter drops a game-changing secret. Anne Taylor nails the perfect mix of wit and heart, capturing the chaos and beauty of family with unforgettable style. This is one story you won’t shake off anytime soon.

Another gem from Anne Tyler,, a master at creating everyday, imperfect characters who the reader roots for despite their often self-created life challenges. That is certainly the case in this short but so sweet tale that centers on Gail, mother of the bride, on the day before, during, and after her only daughter Debbie's wedding

Gail initially isn't the most likable character. When we are introduced to her, we learn she has been passed over for a promotion in a private school due to her lack of people skills. Her socially awkward ways pervade her everyday life. Over the course of three days, we learn of her marriage and ultimate divorce from Max, who shows up at her door with a foster cat to jointly support "and give away" their daughter at the wedding.

As Gail reflects on her past, and how she came to be in her present circumstances, she is forced to look at her future with heightened clarity.. In finally owning her prior mistakes, she can stake a claim to a future with just a bit more happiness than she ever anticipated.

Within this short novel of less than 200 pages are on-point, wise insights into human nature. We are along for the ride in this multigenerational cast of characters who confront their own tests of loyalty, love and what it means to be family, Gail - mother, daughter, wife, ex-wife and mother of the bride - is both odd and yet oddly so relatable. I couldn't help but finish the final pages and spontaneously smile.

Simply perfect. A five star joy to read. Thank you to NetGalley and Knopf for the eARC in exchange for my honest review.

I will read anything Anne Tyler writes, but this one was one of my absolute favorites of all of her novels. Gail Banes is such a relatable and likable yet quirky and unusual heroine/protagonist and I truly could not put the novel down once I started it; that's how engaged I was with her trials and tribulations. This book is bittersweet, heartwarming, intelligent and just so special. I will highly recommend.

The three days are the day before, of, and after the protagonist Gail's daughter's and only child's wedding. I've experienced these, too. So for me to have this author highlight the impact of these events in the quiet and real way that is the hallmark of her writing was an absolute pleasure. Anne Tyler masterfully writes about life in slices of everyday life. This book is genuine and ordinary. I say ordinary because most of our lives are ordinary; thankfully. I read the book in a sitting, engaged from the start to experience three common, although not ordinary, days in someone's life, common and important. After all, I'm only one of millions whose only daughter and child had a day before, of and after her wedding. And I'm only a bit older than the protagonist who deals with an ex, a job loss, and the wedding, in those three days. I was simply caught up in sharing the experience with Gail. Absolutely delightful

Gail is having a rough 3 days in June. She looses her job, her only daughter is getting married, and her ex-husband has just shown up on her door step with a cat in a carrier. As the story unfolds, you will have glimpses of her younger life and decisions that she has made that lead up to these three days. The book read smoothly, which is always a plus for me! Thank you to Net Galley for allowing me to read this book for my honest opinion.

Gail is an awkward sort of women.. no real social skills…, she learns of the loss of her position as second in command at the Aston School in Baltimore the same weekend as her daughter is getting married.
Also, her ex-husband comes to town, and ends up staying at her house which is fine because they’ve stayed friendly.
I really enjoyed how Tyler wrote about each character.. she really lets you feel what they are feeling!
This was a fun, sweet read!

Thank you to NetGalley and Knopf, Pantheon, Vintage, and Anchor for the Arc!

I love Anne Tyler. I've loved every single novel she wrote and this one is no exception. Her stories are often quiet and on the surface, about "nothing" but a slice of life. This one is no exception. It's about three days in Gail's life. We see her losing her job, we see her ex coming to stay with her and taking over her space and even bringing his cat along, we see her daughter preparing to get married and finding out things she didn't know. We see Gail hoping and wishing the best for her daughter and not knowing how to navigate any of this.

The thing about Tyler's novels is that they feel real and true and quiet in the best way. Her writing is beautiful to me and her characters are so real, they could easily jump out of the book. I love reading her stories. I love these slices of life. I love these people who are so flawed and yet try so hard.

with gratitude to Knopf and netgalley for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

Three Days in June is a quick, sweet read. Gail is a middle-aged woman whose daughter Debbie is getting married. The eponymous three days in June are the day before, of, and after Debbie’s wedding. We get little glimpses of Gail’s life, opinions, and relationships. Gail is delightful as a character: wry, direct, and “not good with people.” I found myself chuckling at a lot of the ways Gail described the world and the people around her. I thoroughly enjoyed the complex relationships, writing, and storyline. Recommended! Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Anne Tyler has been a favorite author of mine for many years due to her true-to-life portrayals of average families and their sometimes-quirky friends in the Baltimore area. I always have found her narratives to be easy, interesting and amusing reading with great character portrayals. In this book, she focusses on Gail Baines, her daughter Debbie who is about to marry Kenneth Bailey, and Max Baines, Gail’s ex-husband. Max is a very different character from Gail. and has not sought other than a succession of low-paying jobs. Specifically, three days are portrayed: Debbie’s “Day of Beauty” with the Baileys before the wedding, the wedding day itself, and the “Day After the Wedding.”

There is one sizeable “bump” caused by a story told by Kenneth’s sister the day before the wedding which is apparently resolved, enabling the wedding to go forward, as planned, and also slight drama during the wedding dinner itself. Overall, Gail and Max grow to understand each other a bit better during the three days. Gail even decides to adopt the rescue cat Max totes to her house when he comes to town for the wedding.

Although I enjoyed the book, I really considered it worth 3 1/2 stars. Somehow I just felt the plot was not quite interesting enough to warrant a higher rating. Still enjoyable, but it felt a bit flat to me.

It's just a snapshot—the life-changing scenes that happen daily or in a short period and change your trajectory. At first, it was mundane—an age/life hiccup that was sad and disappointing during a joyous celebration. The journey blooms and becomes enlightening without earth-shattering revelations, but just enough to keep you involved and empathetic. You wish the main character happiness and peace.

I know Anne Tyler is a very prolific writer but have only read one of her books (Saint Maybe). So I can't say if this is one of her best, or even one of her better novels. Regardless, I found Three Days in June to be an enjoyable read. I'm somewhat torn at describing the book as a slice-of-life story (even though it takes place over 3 days) as Anne managed to create a rich picture of a woman's regrets and reflections about her life in a relatively compact novel. The protagonist did remind me a bit of Olive Kitteridge, although in her older years as Gail is less judgemental.