June: A Novel

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on her bicycle, she turned in to the Elm Grove Cemetery, speeding past those gray headboards of eternal rest”) and (“her lustrous hair had grown thin and her face had been swallowed by a conspiracy of chins. Shankar remains one of the most famous and influential Indians of modern times, perhaps second only to Gandhi himself. If I had to choose, I would say that I really liked the parts of the book set in 1955 just a little more than the present day but I still wanted more.

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June” is a novel of family secrets, friendship, desperation, deception, sacrifice, and lost love that is sure to please its intended audience. The pacing was a bit off: Ford delves so much on her experiences as a very young child, then rushes through her college years. The wait for his next brick-sized exposé can be sated by the 12 previously published profiles compiled here covering rogues of all stripes, from a vintage-wine forger to El Chapo. When Jack’s daughters come looking for answers, together with Cassie, they’ll slowly uncover what happened on a fateful day sixty years before.The story flows back and forth between the present and 1955, the year Hollywood descended on the tiny town of St. It's not all bad, but when there are so many really wonderful books out there to read, why waste your summer? It was the kind of book that was pretty good but I still found myself wanting more throughout the story.

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Sometimes I thought she was belaboring a point a bit too much - but by the end - I wanted to read every work. Moss’s ability to conjure up the fleeting and sometimes agonised tenderness of family life is unmatched, and here she sketches so lightly the all-but-invisible conflicts and compromises that can make cohabitation both a joy and a living hell. I’m not sure why they needed to do this, because Two Oaks, that beautiful, decaying mansion willed to Cassie by June, gives people sleeping inside it dreams of the past.

Shifting deftly between the past and present, Cassie and her guests will be forced to reexamine their legacies, their definition of family, and what it truly means to love someone, steadfastly, across the ages. Similarly, Ford fails to ponder how her experiences connected to what other women and girls, especially Black girls, face.