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Every June

A novel · Thea Marlowe

On June sixth — the day they met — Henry Ames wakes to find his wife standing at the kitchen sink. She remembers nothing of the eleven months since her death. She believes it's an ordinary Saturday. She will be gone again by midnight. For thirty years he gets exactly one day a year with the woman he lost — and every year he has to decide whether to tell her the truth.

She was standing at the kitchen sink with her back to him, rinsing a coffee cup she would have no memory of using, and Henry Ames stood in the doorway of his own house and understood, before she even turned around, that either he had lost his mind in the eleven months since the funeral, or something had happened to the world that no one had thought to warn him could happen at all.

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