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 dreamt of coming for years--she hoped to shuck oysters and take sunset sails with her husband, only now she's here without him. Meanwhile, the bride has accounted for every detail and every possible disaster the weekend might yield except for, well, Phoebe--which makes it that much more surprising when the women can't stop confiding in each other.

In turns uproariously, absurdly funny and devastatingly tender, Alison Espach's The Wedding People is a look at the winding paths we can take to places we never imagined--and the chance encounters it sometimes takes to reroute us.

Review Quotes

"The Wedding People is my very favorite kind of novel--hilarious and witty with enormous heart and characters I fell in love with. I was delighted to be at this wedding, in the middle of the drama and gossip, watching the entanglements of friendships old and new. I haven't stopped talking about this book since I finished it, and I won't stop until I've made everyone I know read it...so read it! Now! You can thank me later."
--Jennifer Close, bestselling author of Marrying the Ketchups

"The Wedding People is a wickedly funny and deeply satisfying novel about a woman with nothing to lose, armed with a green dress, some chocolate wine, and a coconut pillow, cut loose to cause delightful mayhem. It's a story of lovers who turn into strangers, strangers who turn into friends, and the weird and wonderful connections that make us feel truly alive. I loved it."
--Jenny Jackson, New York Times bestselling author of Pineapple Street

"Alison Espach! How does she do it? I mean, really--how? The Wedding People is so utterly, ringingly true it feels less like fiction than like a field guide to personhood. It's so funny and romantic that I sometimes laughed out loud and sometimes got actual goosebumps. I tore through it like I didn't have a disordered deficit of attention. It's a perfect novel. I loved it."
--Catherine Newman, author of We All Want Impossible Things

About the Author

Alison Espach is the author of the novels The Adults, a New York Times Editors' Choice and a Barnes & Noble Discover pick; and Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance, which was named a best book of 2022 by the Chicago Tribune and NPR. Her short stories and essays have appeared in McSweeney's, Vogue, Outside, Joyland and other places. She is a professor of creative writing at Providence College in Rhode Island.

Specifications

Dimensions (Overall): 9.25 Inches (H) x 6.12 Inches (W) x 1 Inches (D)

Weight: 1.0

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Sub-Genre: Humorous

Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres

Number of Pages: 384

Publisher: Henry Holt & Company

Format: Hardcover

Author: Alison Espach

Theme: General

Language: English

Street Date: July 30, 2024

TCIN: 89954338

UPC: 9781250899576

Item Number (DPCI): 059-01-1003

Origin: Made in the USA

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