June’s Book Pick: Seven Days in June
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I’m happy to announce that the #ChronicallyIconicBookClub will be reading SEVEN DAYS IN JUNE by Tia Williams for the month of June! This book is an adult romance featuring a heroine with chronic migraines that is based on the author’s personal experience.
Not only is the title perfect for June, it also fits with Migraine Awareness Month. I’ve read this one before and the migraine representation is simply amazing. I will warn you though that this is an adult book that covers many mature situations including past addiction, self-harm, alcoholism, explicit sexual content, and child abuse. (I felt like it was thoughtfully done but please take this into consideration before you read.)
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Seven Days in June by Tia Williams
Representation: chronic migraines based on the author’s personal experience
Summary: Eva is a single mom and bestselling romance writer who’s feeling pressed from all sides. Shane is a reclusive, award-winning literary author who, to everyone's surprise, shows up in New York. 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.
What no one knows is that twenty years earlier, teenage Eva and Shane spent one crazy week madly in love before everything fell apart. Over the next seven days, Eva and Shane reconnect, but Eva's not sure how she can trust the man who broke her heart. Before Shane disappears again, there are a few questions she needs answered...
Content warnings: past addiction, self-harm, alcoholism, explicit sexual content, and child abuse