Three Junes is a vividly textured symphonic novel set on both sides of the Atlantic during three fateful summers in the
lives of a Scottish family. In June of 1989, Paul McLeod, the recently widowed patriarch, becomes infatuated with a young
American artist while traveling through Greece and is compelled to relive the secret sorrows of his marriage. Six years later,
Paul's death reunites his sons at Tealing, their idyllic childhood home, where Fenno, the eldest, faces a choice that puts
him at the center of his family's future. A lovable, slightly repressed gay man, Fenno leads the life of an aloof expatriate
in the West Village, running a shop filled with books and birdwatching gear. He believes himself safe from all emotional entanglements--until
a worldly neighbor presents him with an extraordinary gift and a seductive photographer makes him an unwitting subject. Each
man draws Fenno into territories of the heart he has never braved before, leading him toward an almost unbearable loss that
will reveal to him the nature of love.
Love in its limitless forms--between husband and wife, between lovers, between people and animals, between parents and children--is
the force that moves these characters' lives, which collide again, in yet another June, over a Long Island dinner table. This
time it is Fenno who meets and captivates Fern, the same woman who captivated his father in Greece ten years before. Now pregnant
with a son of her own, Fern, like Fenno and Paul before him, must make peace with her past to embrace her future. Elegantly
detailed yet full of emotional suspense, often as comic as it is sad, Three Junes is a glorious triptych about how we learnto
live, and live fully, beyond incurable grief and betrayals of the heart--how family ties, both those we're born into and those
we make, can offer us redemption and joy.
