The Unmaking of June Farrow: A Novel

The Unmaking of June Farrow: A Novel by Adrienne Young

The Farrow women seem to go crazy later in life. June does some research and tries to find out more about her family history. She discovers people with similar names that lived at different times in the past. She even discovers somebody with her name. Then she goes through the door. The Farrow women can go through the door to different time periods. They have three chances to do this, and then they are stuck. June ends up back in the 1950s in a time period almost a year after a different version of her had lived before. She was involved with the murder of a priest in the small North Carolina town. Others are trying to catch her, especially after she mysteriously disappeared shortly after the crime. Gradually some memories come back and others leave. She does something to unravel time that would thus end the curse of time travel in her family. This unraveling part is quite confusing, but so is just about any attempt to explain time travel. Somehow she overlaps history with a loop and things stop or something like that. There is still some weirdness with generations where younger generations raise older ones due to time travel and age differences. How does this work out with the unravelling? This is not very clear. While time travel is confusing, the challenges of "outsiders" in small southern towns is accurately portrayed.