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ISBN13: 9789199182452
Publisher: Amara Lumen Publishing
Pages: 344
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.77 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
June has thirty days.
A postponed decision.
A deadline on July 17.
A possible trip to Singapore.
And far too many browser tabs open.
At the beginning of the month, her life is measured in dates.
June 5 might bring the answer she has been waiting for. June 30 might become a departure. Somewhere between the two, she is trying to keep working, applying for jobs, buying groceries, helping friends, drinking tea before it goes cold, and resisting the increasingly unreasonable price of plane tickets.
Then Friday arrives.
The answer does not.
Instead, the decision is postponed.
It is disappointing, but it also gives June something she did not expect:
time.
Enough time, perhaps, to move.
As Singapore slowly changes from a contingency plan into something she actually wants, June begins rediscovering the ordinary parts of life she had allowed uncertainty to crowd out. Walks by the river. Cinnamon buns. Flowers bought for no one but herself. Job applications. Boundaries. Quiet Sundays.
And then, one Saturday morning, she opens an envelope.
The month changes.
For a while, so does June.
But JUNE is not a story about finding a perfect answer.
It is about what happens after disappointment arrives and life keeps going anyway.
Told across thirty days, JUNE is a warm, quietly funny, and deeply human novel about waiting, work, memory, resilience, travel, and the strange courage required to make plans while important parts of life remain unresolved.
It is about learning that falling apart does not erase progress.
That pain can exist beside anticipation.
That waiting is not always the same as being stuck.
And that sometimes moving forward begins with something very small:
a cup of tea,
an open curtain,
a packed suitcase,
and a boarding pass with your name on it.
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