The Wedding People: A Novel

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The runaway¶ÿNew York Times¶ÿbestseller
A Today Show #ReadwithJenna Book Club Pick,¶ÿNew York Times Book Review¶ÿEditors? Choice, and a #1 Indie Next Pick
Named a Best Book of the Year by¶ÿThe Guardian,¶ÿTime,¶ÿChicago Tribune¶ÿBiblioracle,¶ÿHuffPost,¶ÿUS Magazine,¶ÿElle,¶ÿReal Simple, and¶ÿGlamour

A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people who help her start anew¶ÿ

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¶ÿThe Wedding People¶ÿis 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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The Wedding People: A Novel

The Wedding People: A Novel Hardcover with dust jacket - 30-Jul-24

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The runaway¶ÿNew York Times¶ÿbestseller
A Today Show #ReadwithJenna Book Club Pick,¶ÿNew York Times Book Review¶ÿEditors? Choice, and a #1 Indie Next Pick
Named a Best Book of the Year by¶ÿThe Guardian,¶ÿTime,¶ÿChicago Tribune¶ÿBiblioracle,¶ÿHuffPost,¶ÿUS Magazine,¶ÿElle,¶ÿReal Simple, and¶ÿGlamour

A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people who help her start anew¶ÿ

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¶ÿThe Wedding People¶ÿis 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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Print length

384 pages

Language

English

Publisher

Henry Holt and Co.

Publication date

30-Jul-24

Dimensions

9.6 in H | 6.6 in W | 1.2 in T | 1.3 lb Wt

ISBN-10

1250899575

ISBN-13

978-1250899576

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ISBN-10: 1250899575

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Format: Hardcover with dust jacket

Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.

Language: English

Number of pages: 384 pages

Dimensions: 9.6 in H | 6.6 in W | 1.2 in T | 1.3 lb Wt

Sku: 1-50000-45282

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Alison Espach
Alison Espach
Alison Espach is the author of the novels The Adults, a New York Times Editorsƒ?? 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.

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