A deep exploration of the ordinary

Three Days in June (Knopf, 2025) is a love letter to introverts, and to anyone who’s ever felt out of place at a party, a business meeting, or the hairdresser. In her twenty-fifth novel, Anne Tyler returns to familiar territory and the themes she’s been wrestling with in fiction for over fifty years. Complicated, thorny family relationships. The push, pull, and dance of mother-daughter bonds. Awkward social conventions that seem illogical but also necessary …