Big Gay Wedding
A Novel
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- $14.99
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Publisher Description
Named one of Shondaland and Town & Country's Best Books of May • Named one of Lambda Literary's Most Anticipated LGBTQIA+ Books • Named one of Cosmopolitan's Best Books of 2023 (So Far)
An unashamedly proud, loud, and hilarious novel about a small town that’s forever changed by a big gay wedding, perfect for fans of Red, White & Royal Blue and The Guncle
Two grooms. One mother of a problem.
Barnett Durang has a secret. No, not THAT secret. His widowed mother has long known he’s gay. The secret is Barnett is getting married. At his mother’s farm. In their small Louisiana town. She just doesn’t know it yet.
It’ll be an intimate affair. Just two hundred or so of the most fabulous folks Barnett is shipping in from the “heathen coasts,” as Mom likes to call them, turning her quiet rescue farm for misfit animals into a most unlikely wedding venue.
But there are forces, both within this modern new family and in the town itself, that really don’t want to see this handsome couple march down the aisle. It’ll be the biggest, gayest event in the town’s history if they can pull it off, and after a glitter-filled week, nothing will ever be the same. Big Gay Wedding is an uplifting book about the power of family and the unconditional love of a mother for her son.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Lane (A Star Is Bored) channels rom-com zaniness in his frothy if uneven latest. Chrissy Durang, recently widowed, hopes her 24-year-old son, Barnett, will leave his MRI technician job in Los Angeles to move back and take over her animal rescue farm in rural Louisiana. Instead, Barnett reveals he's engaged to the flamboyant and woo-woo Ezra Tanner. Though Chrissy has long known Barnett is gay, she balks at the news and is hostile when Ezra arrives to meet her. Her emotions ramp up even more when Ezra's parents, domineering socialite Victoria and taciturn Winston, invite themselves to the farm. Egged on by Ezra's flighty twin sister, who has ambitious ideas for a farm wedding, the men make hasty preparations. They have fun brainstorming for a while, until their presence sparks outrage and hateful vandalism from locals. Then Chrissy, in an underdeveloped turn, shucks off her Catholic-influenced hesitancy and goes full bore into the planning. Lane's broad humor moves fast, with occasional winning lines, but most of the players read like caricatures and the more serious moments fall flat. While diverting, this feels a bit aimless.
