The Wedding People

Description

The Wedding People
by Alison Espach

ISBN: 9781250899576
Hardcover, new

Published 7/30/24

Brief Description:
A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest
and the surprising people who help us 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 dreamt of coming for
years—she hoped to shuck oysters and take sunset sails with her husband,
only now she’s here without him. Meanwhile, the bride has accounted for
every detail and every possible disaster the weekend might yield except
for, well, Phoebe—which makes it that much more surprising when the women
can’t stop confiding in each other. In turns uproariously, absurdly funny
and devastatingly tender, Alison Espach’s The Wedding People is a look at
the winding paths we can take to places we never imagined—and the chance
encounters it sometimes takes to reroute us.