Three Junes - Exquisite - a must read book

This book is truly a literary symphony as delicate themes introduced in the first section are interwoven as they develop throughout the story in variations on maturity, self-acceptance, relationships and familial love. The novel's finest point is in the depth and sensitivity of its carefully wrought characters, with whom we become intimate as the novel blooms.
The story develops during three separate Junes and compassionately delivers three generations of the McLeod family across a decade of challenge and change. Each story is lovingly etched against well-matched settings in the tourist's Greece, rural Scotland, and New York's Greenwich Village and the Hamptons. These settings form backdrops for interior exploration - the father, in Greece to regenerate after the death of his wife, reflects upon their relationship and their three sons, and the future.
The sons gather at the family home during the second June, to honor the death of their father and in the process learn to embrace the essence of family. We experience this June with Fenno, expatriated eldest son who hides himself in the anonymity of New York City. He affords us an incisive and intimate view of his struggles to come to acceptance of self, love, and family responsibility. Then, in the final June, a young woman who the father met in Greece during the first chapter, offers readers a sensitive, affectionate, hope-filled perspective of lovers, brothers, and of self.
The intricately designed and interwoven characters, settings and subplots deliver a symphony of human emotion and confusion, tightly bound by a sense of love and belonging.