six more months of june
a novel by daisy garrison
“The glittering lovechild of Ladybird and The Perks of Being Wallflower…”
—David Arnold
Golden boy Caplan and bookish Mina have been unlikely soulmates since third grade. Bound by growing up in single-mother households on the same cul-de-sac in Two Docks, Michigan, their friendship exists miraculously outside their high school’s social order. Mina is class valedictorian, expected by her late father’s parents to attend his Ivy alma mater; Caplan is laughing off prom-king predictions and the fear that he’s peaking too soon.
When Cap’s skateboard-toting, detention-dodging best friend confesses his feelings for Mina, she is whisked into a social life she never imagined, bumping shoulders with the likes of Caplan’s queen-bee girlfriend. Caplan is determined that things stay just as they’ve always been, while Mina faces the perils and privileges of opening her heart just in time to say goodbye.
As the sun sets on senior year, everything glows, and nothing looks the same in that last-change light.
“With blistering dialogue and prose that sings, Garrison’s soaring debut is an ode to the teenage experience, and all the feelings that come with it. This is high school at its most visceral, the glittering lovechild of Lady Bird and the Perks of Being a Wallflower. A provocative portrait of love and friendship (and the blurry lines between), six more months of june is a true stunner of a novel.”
David Arnold
New Tork Times bestselling author of Mosquitoland
