The Wedding People: A Novel

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The runaway New York Times bestselling Today Show Read With Jenna Book Club Pick, with more than 1.5 million copies sold, about an unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people who help her start anew.Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian, Time, Chicago Tribune, Elle, Real Simple, and GlamourIt’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.

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by Alison Espach (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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B0CJ839C56

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When a book is this popular, it may seem like there's not much left to say. But I have to weigh in, because this is one terrific book, full of heart and hope and humor, despite the fact that it seems, in its opening pages, to be going in a dark direction (it's not). I loved Alison Espach's writing, her quirky observations, and the surprising turns in the plot. And the characters are without exception engaging and likeable (I have a special, sneaking affection for the bride).When I really enjoy a book, it becomes something like a companion -- you just really want to spend time with it and share it with others. This one? I've recommended it to at least a half dozen people, and though I bought it only last February, I've read it myself three times. It's a treat.