Three Junes

Three Junes by Julia Glass A luminous first novel set in
Greece Scotland Greenwich Village and Long Island that
traces the members of a Scottish family 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 Pauls 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 loves redemptive powers.