The Wedding People
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4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
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Publisher Description
"As narrator, the terrific Laser, an actress and puppeteer, only enhances the swoon-worthy quirks and romance." —Vulture
A Today show #ReadwithJenna Book Club Pick, A Goodreads Choice Awards 2024 Winner, and long-listed in many Best of the Year 2024 picks!
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.
A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt & Company.
Customer Reviews
Wedding p
Very slow start, picks up towards the end
An attempted lighthearted tail about humanities loneliness problem
I saw mixed reviews on this book yet it was on top charts everywhere so I decided to give it a try. I will start by saying it wasn’t my typical genre so take that for what you will.
This is a story about the unifying truth that we are all lonely; in our marriages, in big families or friend groups, and at home by ourselves, it’s a fact that we all feel lonely at one time or another. The subject matter is heavy and, at times, poignant and convicting.
However, the main characters are insufferable humans each in their own way. Don’t get me wrong, the story woven between them is touching and the irritating nature of the women provided audible laughs. But overall I found the thought provoking elements to be buried inside an awkward literary journey.
By no means a bad book, but not one I will reread.
Easy read
Enjoyable easy read