We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article.Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anne Tyler's latest novel, the New York Times bestseller "Three Days in June" (Knopf), details a long weekend in the life of a divorced school administrator, bookended by the loss of her job and her daughter's wedding.Read an excerpt below, and don't miss Robert Costa's interview with Anne Tyler on "CBS Sunday Morning" May 25!"Three Days in June" by Anne Tyler $18 at Amazon Prefer to listen? Audible has a 30-day free trial available right now.
Try Audible for free The clock gathered itself together with a whirring of gears and struck a series of blurry notes.Nine o'clock, I was thinking; but no, it turned out to be ten.
I'd been sitting there in a sort of stupor, evidently.I stood up and hung my purse in the closet, but then outside the window I saw some movement on the other side of the curtain, some dark and ponderous shape laboring up my front walk.
I tweaked the curtain aside a half inch.Max, for God's sake.
Max with a duffel bag slung over one shoulder, and a bulky square suitcase dangling from his left hand.I went to the front door and opened it and looked out at him through the screen."What on earth?" I asked him."You're home!" he said."Yes ..." "Debbie is at something called a Day of Beauty.""Right," I said."But she knew ahead I was coming.
I told her I was coming.I get there and no one's home.
I call her cell phone and she says she didn't expect me so early.""Why did you come so early?" I asked him."I wanted to beat the rush.You know what Fridays are like on the Bay Bridge."All the more reason not to live on the other side of it, I could have pointed out.
I opened the screen door for him and reached for his suitcase, but it wasn't a suitcase; it was some kind of animal carrier.Square patch of wire grid on the end and something watchful and alert stari...