Seven Days in June

"Eva and Shane meet when they are damaged teens on the same high school campus. They both have been traumatized by abuse – and the need to shrug off their trauma. The two become confidants and lovers for seven magical days their senior year – and then Shane disappears. Eva is devastated. Twenty years later, both are hugely successful authors. An awards show brings them together again; there’s passion – and a lot of wariness. Tia Williams does a great job of plumbing the hesitancies of emotionally gun-shy people and satirizing bougie Black literary life in this wonderfully adult romance."