I can’t remember where I first heard about this, but I do remember reading or hearing several reviews that said it was their surprise/stand out of the year. But when I started writing the review for this I realised that it was going to be pretty long, probably the same length that I’d write for all the solo reviews I write and that it deserved its own post. Originally I planned to put a review of this book in with a post that contained quite a few others, that I was using to wrap up loose ends for the year. With its keen observations of Black life and the condition of modern motherhood, as well as the consequences of motherless-ness, Seven Days in June is by turns humorous, warm and deeply sensual. But before Shane disappears again, there are a few questions she needs answered… Over the next seven days in the middle of a steamy Brooklyn summer, Eva and Shane reconnect, but Eva’s not sure how she can trust the man who broke her heart, and she needs to get him out of New York so that her life can return to normal. They may be pretending that everything is fine now, but they can’t deny their chemistry – or the fact that they’ve been secretly writing to each other in their books ever since. What no one knows is that twenty years earlier, teenage Eva and Shane spent one crazy, torrid week madly in love. When Shane and Eva meet unexpectedly at a literary event, sparks fly, raising not only their past buried traumas, but the eyebrows of New York’s Black literati.

Shane Hall is a reclusive, enigmatic, award-winning literary author who, to everyone’s surprise, shows up in New York.

Blurb : Brooklynite Eva Mercy is a single mom and bestselling erotica writer, who is feeling pressed from all sides.

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