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The Skye
in June is
a coming of age story about a Scottish immigrant family and their
youngest child, June, who is
clairvoyant. Her visions are not welcomed in her repressive
religious household. June and her three sisters come of
age during a social
upheaval of the 1960's in San Francisco and their parents have their
hands full dealing with each child straying from their religious
teachings. To worsen matters, June's psychic abilities
uncover her mother's long hidden secret. It's a tale of reconciliation
and acceptance.
The
story unfolds in Glasgow Scotland in the back seat of a cab.
Cathy
MacDonald is on the way to the hospital to deliver, yet another bairn
(child.) June
MacDonald’s fate is sealed the day she is born because Cathy
defies her husband Jimmy by giving their new daughter a pagan name of
June
instead of a Catholic saint’s, as is their tradition.
The
decision forever sets the MacDonald family on a course for disaster,
and no one can foresee that June will grow up to threaten their strong
religious beliefs.
When
the rollicking Scottish MacDonald family emigrates to San
Francisco,
California, young June has visions. They haunt Cathy, revealing her
secret past in the Scottish Highlands. June’s religiously rigid and
abusive father will not tolerate the visions. This does’t stop his
feisty redheaded daughter from her interest and curiosity in psychic
phenomena and witchcraft.
The
family is on the brink of imploding when June and her three sisters
come of age in the early 1960’s. "Doomed
to hell, every last one of
you,” proclaims Jimmy whose four daughters seem to be
abandoning
Catholicism in favor of the Haight-Ashbury's sexual revolution and
psychedelic
lifestyle.
June’s
life is saved, over and over again, by caring people who help her
through a difficult childhood but
in
order to save June, it is her mother who must take heed
of June’s psychic messages before it’s too late.
Not
since author Amy Tan's early writings has a woman's voice so strongly
resonated from one of San Francisco's most famous neighborhoods. Author
June Ahern's powerful coming of age tale, “The Skye in June”, is the
evolution of a young psychic and her passage through a unique time and
place-–a must read for anyone interested in the drama and complexities
of what it might be like growing up psychic. - Jim
Toland, "Fire And Fog"
Anyone
who loves a good read of San Francisco's history in the 1950's and
early days of a new era of the 60s will enjoy this
book. It is
rich with nuances of Scottish culture and words. The
story takes readers
through issues
of family and how it changes over the years, immigrant
challenges, the
world of mysticism.
Enjoy
a chapter "Wicked
Behavior at Holy
Savior" - left handside.
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June
Callaghan of Eureka Valley
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