RaveThe Chicago TribuneJulia Glass has written a radiant first novel that turns the story of Scotland native Fenno McLeod and his real and extended family of ‘upper-crusty Ivanhoe’ types, creative women and urban gay men into an intimate literary triptych of lives pulled together and torn apart … Paul's story is a finely detailed portrait of a somewhat ordinary life and the handful of people, past and present, who make their way into it. But the novel's most sustained scrutiny is reserved for Fenno, Paul's bibliophile eldest son who has a preference for men and remains devoted to the mother whose passionate life, tragically cut short by lung cancer, he never really understood. Fenno's lengthy first-person narrative takes its place at the literal and symbolic center of Three Junes, providing the anchor point for the intricate web of characters that make up Glass' thoughtful textual design.
