{"id":56297,"date":"2025-04-29T06:00:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T11:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=56297"},"modified":"2025-04-19T13:17:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T18:17:48","slug":"readalikes-for-three-days-in-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/readalikes-for-three-days-in-june\/","title":{"rendered":"Readalikes for Three Days in June"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’re anxiously waiting to read Anne Tyler’s newest novel, Three Days in June<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, I have gathered a list of readalikes to tide you over. This literary fiction tackles the challenges of love, the complexities of human relationships, and the ups and downs of marriage and family. Curious what\u00a0Three Days in June<\/em><\/strong><\/a> is about? Check out the description below and then move on to our recommended readalikes.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Three Days in June<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>by Anne Tyler<\/p>\n

Gail Baines is having a bad day. To start, she loses her job\u2014or quits, depending on whom you ask. Tomorrow her daughter, Debbie, is getting married, and she hasn\u2019t even been invited to the spa day organized by the mother of the groom. Then, Gail\u2019s ex-husband, Max, arrives unannounced on her doorstep, carrying a cat, without a place to stay, and without even a suit.<\/em><\/p>\n

But the true crisis lands when Debbie shares with her parents a secret she has just learned about her husband to be. It will not only throw the wedding into question but also stir up Gail and Max\u2019s past.<\/em><\/p>\n

Told with deep sensitivity and a tart sense of humor, full of the joys and heartbreaks of love and marriage and family life, Three Days in June is a triumph, and gives us the perennially bestselling, Pulitzer Prize\u2013winning writer at the height of her powers.<\/em> – Knopf<\/p>\n

As of this writing, all of these titles are owned by the Davenport Public Library. Descriptions are provided by the publishers.<\/p>\n

2024 Books<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>After Annie\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/em>by Anna Quindlen<\/p>\n

When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her children, and her closest friend are left to find a way forward without the woman who has been the lynchpin of all their lives. Bill is overwhelmed without his beloved wife, and Annemarie wrestles with the bad habits her best friend had helped her overcome. And Ali, the eldest of Annie\u2019s children, has to grow up overnight, to care for her younger brothers and even her father and to puzzle out for herself many of the mysteries of adult life.<\/em><\/p>\n

Over the course of the next year what saves them all is Annie, ever-present in their minds, loving but not sentimental, caring but nobody\u2019s fool, a voice in their heads that is funny and sharp and remarkably clear. The power she has given to those who loved her is the power to go on without her. The lesson they learn is that no one beloved is ever truly gone.<\/em><\/p>\n

Written in Quindlen\u2019s emotionally resonant voice and with her deep and generous understanding of people, After Annie is about hope, and about the unexpected power of adversity to change us in profound and indelible ways.<\/em> – Random House<\/p>\n

This title is available in large print and CD audiobook.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>I’ll Come to You<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Rebecca Kauffman<\/p>\n

A modern and classic story of family, with I\u2019ll Come to You, beloved author Rebecca Kauffman explores overlapping narratives involving a couple whose struggle to become pregnant has both softened and hardened them, a woman whose husband of forty years has left her for reasons he\u2019s unwilling to share and the man who is now disastrously attempting to woo her, a couple in denial about a looming health crisis, and their son who is fumbling toward middle age and can\u2019t stop lying. Ultimately, these storylines crescendo and converge into a dramatic and harrowing turn of events. With heart, wit, and courage, and through pain, these characters traverse territory that both challenges and defines the bonds of family.<\/em><\/p>\n

Sweeping yet compact, I\u2019ll Come to You investigates themes of intimacy, memory, loss, grief, and reconciliation, and the wonder, terror, frustration, fear, and magic of brushing up against the unknowable\u2014both around us and within us.<\/em> – Counterpoint<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Rental House<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Weike Wang<\/p>\n

Keru and Nate are college sweethearts who marry despite their family differences: Keru\u2019s strict, Chinese, immigrant parents demand perfection (\u201cTo use a dishwasher is to admit defeat,\u201d says her father), while Nate\u2019s rural, white, working-class family distrusts his intellectual ambitions and his \u201cforeign\u201d wife.<\/em><\/p>\n

Some years into their marriage, the couple invites their families on vacation. At a Cape Cod beach house, and later at a luxury Catskills bungalow, Keru, Nate, and their giant sheepdog navigate visits from in-laws and unexpected guests, all while wondering if they have what it takes to answer the big questions: How do you cope when your spouse and your family of origin clash? How many people (and dogs) make a family? And when the pack starts to disintegrate, what can you do to shepherd everyone back together?<\/em> – Riverhead Books<\/p>\n

This title is also available in large print.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>The Rich People Have Gone Away<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Regina Porter<\/p>\n

Brooklyn, 2020. Theo Harper and his pregnant wife, Darla, head upstate to their summer cottage to wait out the lockdown. Not everyone in their upscale Park Slope building has this privilege: not Xavier, the teenager in the Cardi B T-shirt, nor Darla\u2019s best friend, Ruby, and her partner, Katsumi, who stay behind to save their Michelin-starred restaurant.<\/em><\/p>\n

During an upstate hike on the aptly named Devil\u2019s Path, Theo divulges a long-held secret\u2014and when Darla disappears after the ensuing argument, he finds himself the prime suspect. As Darla\u2019s and Theo\u2019s families and friends come together to search for her, with Ruby and Katsumi stepping in to broker peace, past and present collide with startling consequences.<\/em><\/p>\n

Set against the pulse of an ever-changing city, The Rich People Have Gone Away connects the lives of ordinary New Yorkers to tell a powerful story of hope, love, and inequity in our times\u2014while reminding us that no one leaves the past behind completely.<\/em> – Hogarth<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Same as it ever was<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Claire Lombardo<\/p>\n

After a youth marked by upheaval and emotional turbulence, Julia resides on the placid plateau of her mid-50s. But Julia has never navigated the world with the equanimity of her current privileged class. Having nearly derailed herself several times, making desperate bids for the kind of connection that always felt inaccessible to her, she believes she has a firm handle on things.<\/em><\/p>\n

She\u2019s unprepared, though, for a surprise announcement from her straight-arrow son, an impending separation from her spikey teenaged daughter, and a seductive resurgence of the past, all of which place her on the kind of razor\u2019s edge that she knows all too well.<\/em><\/p>\n

Same As It Ever Was traverses the rocky terrain of real life, exploring maternal ambivalence, intergenerational friendship, and the happenstantial cause-and-effect that governs us all. Delving into the core of relationships\u2014how they grow, change, and sometimes end\u2014Lombardo proves herself a true and definitive cartographer of the human heart and is, without doubt, among the finest novelists of her generation.<\/em> – Vintage<\/p>\n

This title is also available in large print.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Sandwich<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Catherine Newman<\/p>\n

For the past two decades, Rocky has looked forward to her family\u2019s yearly escape to Cape Cod. Their humble beach-town rental has been the site of sweet memories, sunny days, great meals, and messes of all kinds: emotional, marital, and\u2014thanks to the cottage\u2019s ancient plumbing\u2014septic too.<\/em><\/p>\n

This year\u2019s vacation, with Rocky sandwiched between her half-grown kids and fully aging parents, promises to be just as delightful as summers past\u2014except, perhaps, for Rocky\u2019s hormonal bouts of rage and melancholy. (Hello, menopause!) Her body is changing\u2014her life is, too. And then a chain of events sends Rocky into the past, reliving both the tenderness and sorrow of a handful of long-ago summers.<\/em><\/p>\n

It’s one precious week: everything is in balance; everything is in flux. And when Rocky comes face to face with her family\u2019s history and future, she is forced to accept that she can no longer hide her secrets from the people she loves.<\/em> – Harper Perennial<\/p>\n

This title is also available in large print.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Shred Sisters<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Betsy Lerner<\/p>\n

It is said that when one person in a family is unstable, the whole family is destabilized. Meet the Shreds. Olivia is the sister in the spotlight until her stunning confidence becomes erratic and unpredictable, a hurricane leaving people wrecked in her wake. Younger sister Amy, cautious and studious to the core, believes in facts, proof, and the empirical world. None of that explains what\u2019s happening to Ollie, whose physical beauty and charisma mask the mental illness that will shatter Amy\u2019s carefully constructed life.<\/em><\/p>\n

As Amy comes of age and seeks to find her place\u2014first in academics, then New York publishing, and through a series of troubled relationships\u2014every step brings collisions with Ollie, who slips in and out of the Shred family without warning. Yet for all that threatens their sibling bond, Amy and Ollie cannot escape or deny the inextricable sister knot that binds them.<\/em><\/p>\n

Spanning two decades, Shred Sisters is an intimate and bittersweet story exploring the fierce complexities of sisterhood, mental health, loss and love. If anything is true it\u2019s what Amy learns on her road to self-acceptance: No one will love you more or hurt you more than a sister.<\/em> – Grove Press<\/p>\n

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2025 Books<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Good Dirt<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Charmaine Wilkerson<\/p>\n

When ten-year-old Ebby Freeman heard the gunshot, time stopped. And when she saw her brother, Baz, lying on the floor surrounded by the shattered pieces of a centuries-old jar, life as Ebby knew it shattered as well.<\/em><\/p>\n

The crime was never solved\u2014and because the Freemans were one of the only Black families in a particularly well-to-do enclave of New England\u2014the case has had an enduring, voyeuristic pull for the public. The last thing the Freemans want is another media frenzy splashing their family across the papers, but when Ebby\u2019s high profile romance falls apart without any explanation, that\u2019s exactly what they get.<\/em><\/p>\n

So Ebby flees to France, only for her past to follow her there. And as she tries to process what\u2019s happened, she begins to think about the other loss her family suffered on that day eighteen years ago\u2014the stoneware jar that had been in their family for generations, brought North by an enslaved ancestor. But little does she know that the handcrafted piece of pottery held more than just her family\u2019s history\u2014it might also hold the key to unlocking her own future.<\/em> – Ballantine Books<\/p>\n

This title is also available in large print.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Homeseeking\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/em>by Karissa Chen<\/p>\n

Haiwen is buying bananas at a 99 Ranch Market in Los Angeles when he looks up and sees Suchi, his Suchi, for the first time in sixty years. To recently widowed Haiwen it feels like a second chance, but Suchi has only survived by refusing to look back.<\/em><\/p>\n

Suchi was seven when she first met Haiwen in their Shanghai neighborhood, drawn by the sound of his violin. Their childhood friendship blossomed into soul-deep love, but when Haiwen secretly enlisted in the Nationalist army in 1947 to save his brother from the draft, she was left with just his violin and a note: Forgive me.<\/em><\/p>\n

Homeseeking follows the separated lovers through six decades of tumultuous Chinese history as war, famine, and opportunity take them separately to the song halls of Hong Kong, the military encampments of Taiwan, the bustling streets of New York, and sunny California, telling Haiwen\u2019s story from the present to the past while tracing Suchi\u2019s from her childhood to the present, meeting in the crucible of their lives. Throughout, Haiwen holds his memories close while Suchi forces herself to look only forward, neither losing sight of the home they hold in their hearts.<\/em> – G.P. Putnam’s Sons<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>We All Live Here<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>by Jojo Moyes<\/p>\n

Lila Kennedy has a lot on her plate. A broken marriage, two wayward daughters, a house that is falling apart, and an elderly stepfather who seems to have quietly moved in. Her career is in freefall and her love life is . . . complicated. So when her real dad\u2014a man she has barely seen since he ran off to Hollywood thirty-five years ago\u2014suddenly appears on her doorstep, it feels like the final straw. But it turns out even the family you thought you could never forgive might have something to teach you: about love, and what it actually means to be family.<\/em> – Pamela Dorman Books<\/p>\n

This title is also available in large print and Playaway audiobook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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