Bobby Finger, Courtney Maum and Jenny Jackson Release 3 New Novels in June
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Updated · The New York Times · May 24
Bobby Finger, Courtney Maum and Jenny Jackson Release 3 New Novels in June
1 articles · Updated · The New York Times · May 24
June brings three highlighted summer novels: Courtney Maum’s “Alan Opts Out” on June 2, Bobby Finger’s “We Are Gathered Here Today” on June 16, and Jenny Jackson’s “The Shampoo Effect” on June 30.
Maum’s book follows a Greenwich, Connecticut family splitting over status and consumerism, while Finger’s centers on a Texas wedding weekend disrupted by an “Hour of Disrespect” tradition led by the officiant.
Jackson’s novel rounds out the trio with a coastal Massachusetts romance in which an outsider falls for a local man whose pregnant ex-girlfriend remains in the picture.
Together, the releases are pitched as beach reads spanning social satire, wedding comedy and frothy romance for summer readers.
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