Details
- Book Title: The Wedding People
- Author: Alison Espach
- Publication Date: July 30, 2024
Description
The Wedding People by Alison Espach is a warm, funny, and quietly devastating work of contemporary fiction. Phoebe Stone arrives alone at the grand Cornwall Inn in Newport, Rhode Island, wearing a green dress and gold heels with no luggage in sight, and is immediately mistaken for one of the wedding guests filling the hotel. In truth she is the only person there who isn’t, having come to splurge on one last decadent weekend at the lowest point of her life. When she and the bride, who has planned for every possible disaster except Phoebe, begin unexpectedly confiding in each other, both women find their carefully ordered lives quietly rerouted toward places they never imagined.
Author Bio
Alison Espach is the author of the novels The Wedding People, Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance (an Indie Next Pick and Amazon Editors’ Pick for 2022), and The Adults, a New York Times Editor’s Choice and Barnes & Noble Discover pick. She has written for McSweeney’s, Vogue, Outside Magazine, Joyland, and other outlets, and teaches creative writing at Providence College in Rhode Island.
What Readers Are Saying
- “The Wedding People by Alison Espach is one of those rare books that had me laughing out loud one moment and quietly reflecting on life’s biggest questions the next.” — N. Derrick, five-star Amazon reviewer
- “The hype was real! This was so good! I liked everything about it. How funny it was, while hitting so deep. The characters…not perfect, not horrible, just real and flawed and human and unique.” — BookwormAlex, five-star Amazon reviewer
- “Started yesterday on a cross country flight. Finished during the night when I should have been sleeping. Held my interest, obviously. Highly recommended.” — Neo, five-star Amazon reviewer
- “This story of a person’s internal phoenix transformation is as cleverly written as it is profoundly moving.” — TH Elmore, five-star Amazon reviewer
- “I loved this book! It made me think, smile, and get emotional.” — L, five-star Amazon reviewer
- Holds a 4.3-star average across more than 197,000 Amazon ratings.
Why We Think It Should Be Your Next Book
The Wedding People earned its runaway success honestly: it is the kind of novel that disarms you with comedy and then, when your guard is down, says something true about loneliness, reinvention, and the strangers who change us. Espach writes Phoebe with such tender precision that her unlikely weekend at someone else’s wedding becomes a quietly radical story about deciding to keep going. If you want a book that makes you laugh on one page and reach for a tissue on the next, and leaves you feeling more awake to your own life, this one belongs at the top of your pile.
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