Loved One

Loved OneMost Anticipated Book of the Summer: New York Times Book Review, W Magazine, Oprah Daily, Conde Nast Traveler, Hollywood Reporter, the Boston Globe, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and The Millions Best Book of 2025 So Far: Real Simple, Debutiful, Literary Hub [Loved One] is special . . . full of wildly astute, delectably thorny questions about love and loss and possession. Maggie Shipstead, New York Times bestselling author of Great Circle From an Emmy

upside down banana umbrella until a tiny hummingbird lands and they all fall out

Also by June Hur

son of Mary

and community

It was a discovery centuries in the making

and people are all too human

High Park's Rare Black Oak Savannahs

It shows that the overlooking or ignoring of this reality is the root cause of the existential unhappiness that pervades and motivates most people’s lives

and Locus Award-winning author of The Last Unicorn

As the animals wander off to bed

As an unexpected romance begins galloping away with their hearts

Sally channels her annoyance into a sketch called The Danny Horst Rule