The result isn’t escapism (though the book is a delight) but a vision of life at it truly is: complications and difficulties punctuated by profound joy.” -Rumaan Alam, author of National Book Award finalist Leave the World Behindġ. But Williams, a canny anthropologist of contemporary urban life, is writing realism, exploring personal pain, family entanglements, and the negotiation of black identity in a world defined by whiteness. “In Seven Days in June, Tia Williams conjures a seductive fantasy-rich friendships, star-crossed lovers, artistic fulfillment. “Williams creates an entire world around the new Black literati…It’s Black without apology, qualification, or race-related tragedy…It’s rarer than you think.”- New York Magazine’s The Strategist “ filled with important observations and tidbits about Black life, giving the reader something that goes a step beyond the basic rom-com format.”- USA Today I absolutely loved it.” -Jodi Picoult, #1 NYT bestselling author of The Book of Two Ways and Small Great Things Tia Williams’ book is a smart, sexy testament to Black joy, to the well of strength from which women draw, and to tragic romances that mature into second chances. “Seven Days in June had me laughing out loud and crying with the characters as their hearts are broken and healed. Named a Best Romance Book of 2021 by The Washington Post Named A Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by CNN With its keen observations of creative life in America today, as well as the joys and complications of being a mother and a daughter, Seven Days in June is a hilarious, romantic, and sexy-as-hell story of two writers discovering their second chance at love. Before Shane disappears though, she needs a few questions answered… Over the next seven days, amidst a steamy Brooklyn summer, Eva and Shane reconnect-but Eva’s wary of the man who broke her heart, and wants him out of the city so her life can return to normal. While they may be pretending not to know each other, they can’t deny their chemistry-or the fact that they’ve been secretly writing to each other in their books through the years.

What no one knows is that fifteen 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 buried traumas, but the eyebrows of the Black literati. Shane Hall is a reclusive, enigmatic, award-winning novelist, who, to everyone’s surprise, shows up in New York. Seven days to fall in love, fifteen years to forget, and seven days to get it all back again…Įva Mercy is a single mom and bestselling erotica writer who is feeling pressed from all sides.

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