Three Days in June by Anne Tyler

Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025--San Antonio

Three Days in June by Anne Tyler is a slice-of-life book that has been listed as a top book of 2025.  It covers three days in the life of an aging woman in which several things are happening.  She has been the assistant director of the private school where she teaches mathematics, but is told she is being passed over for the director's job at the end of the year when her boss will retire because she just isn't a "people person."  Her only child, a daughter, is being married.  Her ex-husband is staying with her during the 3-day weekend of the wedding.  And he has brought a cat from the shelter where he volunteers in hopes that she will adopt it.  She reflects on her marriage and what went wrong with it.  She worries about the daughter and whether she is making the right choice in terms of the man she is marrying.  She questions decisions she has made in life.  And she questions what decisions she should make for her future.  It is an interesting short book which is well written and is likely to cause the reader to reflect on his/her own life.  I gave the book 4 stars out of 5.