The Wedding People by Alison Espach

Welcome Bookmates! We're Double Booked for April!Join us as we discuss 2024's Goodreads Choice Award Winner and Book of the Year Finalist: The Wedding People by Alison Espach Does it earn its title? Though this was very different than we expected, we really enjoyed it! Thought provoking, funny, while poignant. This book sure made for some deep thoughts and fun conversations! What did you think of The Wedding People? Do you agree with our take? What was your biggest takeaway from this book? We want to know!Synopsis: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.Click here to send fan mail!Support the showWant to support our show? Subscribe at the link below to receive episode updates and a shout out on our show!  https://www.buzzsprout.com/2359887/supportFind us on social media! We want to hear your thoughts!https://linktr.ee/bookmatespodcasthttps://www.bookmatespodcast.com/Email us at [email protected] super fun extras, bonus episodes and content, hop on over to Bookmates After Dark on Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/c/BookmatesAfterDark/home