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Book review: A compact, emotional story of an older woman in Three Days In June

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Anne Tyler is the author of Three Days In June.

Anne Tyler is the author of Three Days In June.

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By Anne Tyler
Alfred A. Knopf/Hardcover/176 pages/$46.57

Elderly women are a much neglected demographic in novels, but this is changing. From mass-appeal romps like Deanna Raybourn’s Killers Of A Certain Age to more considered tales such as Ann Patchett’s Tom Lake, this invisible demographic is gaining more ground. 

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