The Wedding People

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Today Show #ReadwithJenna Book Club Pick A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people who help her start anew. ItΓÇÖs a beautiful day in Newport,Rhode Islandwhen Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heelsnot a bag in sightalone. She’s immediately mistaken by everyone in the lobby for one of the wedding peoplebut sheΓÇÖs actually the only guest at the Cornwall who isnΓÇÖt here for the big event. Phoebe is here because sheΓÇÖs dreamed of coming for yearsΓÇöshe hoped to shuck oysters and take sunset sails with her husbandonly now sheΓÇÖs here without himat rock bottomand determined to have one last decadent splurge on herself. Meanwhilethe bride has accounted for every detail and every possible disaster the weekend might yield except forwellPhoebe and Phoebe’s planΓÇöwhich makes it that much more surprising when the two women canΓÇÖt stop confiding in each other. In turns absurdly funny and devastatingly tenderAlison EspachΓÇÖs The Wedding People is ultimately an incredibly nuanced and resonant look at the winding paths we can take to places we never imaginedΓÇöand the chance encounters it sometimes takes to reroute us.