The Making of June, Annie Ward
The Making of June, Annie Ward
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The Making of June

Author: Annie Ward

Narrator: Aasne Vigesaa

Unabridged: 11 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/16/2017

Categories: Fiction


Synopsis

At first, June appears to be the ideal California girl - blond hair, blue eyes, a production assistant at a film company, and married to a hot property about to get his doctorate - but she abandons her home and job to follow her husband to Bulgaria. Within a month of their arrival, June turns thirty and her husband leaves her for a young local girl. As difficult as it is for her to be without him and virtually friendless in a country on the verge of civil war, June doesn't run home. She drinks too much, falls into the arms of a Mafia kingpin, gets caught up in the revolution, and little by little revels in her new vision of the world outside the American periscope. She survives and learns that loss can be an opportunity and that loneliness gives a person time to change her life.

About Annie Ward

Ward has a Masters in Screenwriting from UCLA, and her film "Strange Habit," starring Joey Lauren Adams (of "Chasing Amy" fame), was an Official Selection at the Sundance Film Festival and the first place Grand Jury Prize winner at the Aspen Film Festival. She is currently living in Sofia, where she is working on a project for her Fulbright Scholarship until the fall of this year, while writing a screenplay for Millennium Films at the same time.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Chris on December 06, 2015

It was probably me, but this was a tough story to really get into. Once that was accomplished, it was good. A young American woman moves to war torn Bulgaria with her husband who quickly takes up with a younger local woman. June is devastated, drinks too much and takes up with the local crime boss.......more

Goodreads review by Barb on October 05, 2013

An ambitious attempt to both characterize a young woman trying to find herself and explain the life and politics in post-Communist Bulgaria. Nicely written.......more

Goodreads review by Patty on March 28, 2022

It was interesting to read about the devastation of Bulgarian culture during that period. The character development was mediocre. I didn’t find June to be a compelling central character.......more