The Wedding People
By Alison Espach
- Release Date: 2024-07-30
- Genre: Fiction & Literature
Description
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A Today Show #ReadwithJenna Book Club Pick
A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people who help her start anew.
It’s a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, not a bag in sight, alone. She’s immediately mistaken by everyone in the lobby for one of the wedding people, but she’s actually the only guest at the Cornwall who isn’t here for the big event. Phoebe is here because she’s dreamed of coming for years—she hoped to shuck oysters and take sunset sails with her husband, only now she’s here without him, at rock bottom, and determined to have one last decadent splurge on herself. Meanwhile, the bride has accounted for every detail and every possible disaster the weekend might yield except for, well, Phoebe and Phoebe's plan—which makes it that much more surprising when the two women can’t stop confiding in each other.
In turns absurdly funny and devastatingly tender, Alison Espach’s The Wedding People is ultimately an incredibly nuanced and resonant look at the winding paths we can take to places we never imagined—and the chance encounters it sometimes takes to reroute us.
Reviews
Don’t get it
1By NanaFrom NCI struggled to finish the book and don’t get the hype that is out there about it. Fairly boring read.Trigger warning
4By KatmegamesTalks of suicide. But in the end it gets happy (or happier).Awesome!
5By Mimi M. 56Thoroughly and unexpectedly enjoyable. So glad I didn’t miss it!Mirroring Transitions
4By -Nicky-Happy to have found my way to this book.Adulting
5By jessica drennanA wonderful book about being an adult and still being true to yourself.Excellent!
5By SavagepotatoT60Excellent novel! My first by this author, and I’ll be looking for more by her. I’d love for her to write a sequel!Good read
5By TexasGirl0312I almost stopped reading this book due to suicide references but I’m glad I didn’t. Very interesting story.Very entertaining and endearing
4By dominolouisNice story, good dialogue,vey engagingWonderful
5By Lore PalliWonderful in every way. I fell in love with the characters. I usually breeze through light reads, but instead I savored this one. Beautifully written!A warm, funny and uplifting read
5By AndyintheAThis is the kind of book you can’t put down even though it is well past your bedtime. The characters become friends in your head. You shrug off the next day’s responsibilities and stay in bed reading because you just have to see what becomes of the characters who have been so artfully described throughout the book. This has been my favorite book of the year.
