Name: The Wedding People
Price: 493.55 ZAR
Availability: InStock
Author: Alison Espach
ISBN: 9781250899576

Type

Physical Book

Author

Alison Espach

Publisher

Henry Holt & Company

Language

English

Pages

384

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.5 x 15.5 x 2.5 cm

Weight

0.45 kg.

ISBN13

9781250899576

Synopsis "The Wedding People"

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.

Alison Espach

(Author)

View Author's Page

Alison Espach is an American novelist known for her sharp social observation and engaging narrative style. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Washington University in St. Louis and currently teaches creative writing at Providence College, Rhode Island.

Among her notable works is "The Wedding People" (2024), a novel that explores human connections and second chances. This book was awarded the Goodreads Choice Award in the Fiction category in 2024. Another of her notable novels is "The Adults" (2011), selected as Editor's Choice by The New York Times and as a Barnes & Noble Discover Pick.

See less