With the publication of her twenty-fifth novel,
Three Days in June(2025), Anne Tyler has gifted her legion of readers with both the expected and the surprising. As in most of her millennial works,
Three Days in Junefocuses on senior citizenry and how this particular life stage can be upended by forced change and rueful self-reflection. Completist readers of Anne Tyler will recognize a number of the plot points in
Three Days in Juneas they echo those found in several of her recent works. And the familiar Tyler trademarks of characters who do the unexpected and are granted second chances to correct or atone for past errors are present here. But alongside these trademark themes and motifs that have come to be associated with Tyler’s work are two surprise elements. One break from Tyler…
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Citation: Donohue, Cecilia. "Three Days in June". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 28 March 2025 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=41877, accessed 03 April 2025.]
