The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young ****

Curl up in your favorite reading chair with your grandma’s quilt and your daughter’s cat. You’ll need all the support you can summon for The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young, a fantasy/sci-fi time-travel murder mystery. June Farrow comes from a long line of cursed women in the small mountain town of Jasper, North Carolina, who, succumb to madness at some point in their lives. Her mother, Susanna, simply disappeared. June was found as a baby wearing a strange locket. Early in the story, her grandmother, who raised her, dies having first lost her mind, leaving June with her best friend Birdie. June can sense the curse coming for her, the attraction of a mysterious red door that only she can see. That’s how it starts. Do you dare follow?

The Farrows (in 2023) “The Farrow women had a touch. When … everyone else in North Carolina was planting tobacco, the Farrows were growing flowers. It had kept the farm working for the last 118 years, … a peculiar little farm that was growing flower varieties even the richest growers in New England hadn’t been able to get their hands on. The mystery had made the farm something of a legend, even if the women who ran it weren’t exactly considered polite company.”

This is a story of time travel and, as with all time-travel stories, there are rules: (1) You can only travel to another time three times, (2) You can not travel to a time where you already exist, (3) The standard: “No talking about what happens in the future to any of us. No warning us of danger or opportunity or anything else. There are too many risks. Too many things that could be affected.”

This is also a love story.

Stranger vocabulary: Tedder- A tedder is a machine used in haymaking to spread and stir hay to help it dry and cure faster. It's also known as a hay tedder.

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