"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."-- Provided by Amazon
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Contemporary fiction examining grief, family dynamics, and unexpected human connections gained widespread national recognition with the publication of The Wedding People. Written by Alison Espach, the 2024 novel became an instant New York Times bestseller, a TODAY Show #ReadwithJenna Book Club selection, a Barnes & Noble Book Club Pick, the #1 Indie Next Pick for August 2024, and the Goodreads Choice Award winner for top fiction. Set at a seaside Newport hotel where a lone guest becomes uniquely entangled with an elaborate wedding party, the book established Espach as a major contemporary novelist and was slated for publication in more than twenty countries.
Born on September 26, 1984, in Trumbull, Connecticut, Espach developed an early passion for fiction before earning her undergraduate degree from Providence College in 2007 and a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Washington University in St. Louis. She launched her novelistic career with The Adults in 2011, which earned selection as a New York Times Editor's Choice and a Barnes & Noble Discover pick. Espach has been awarded residencies at the Ucross Foundation for the Arts, Millay Arts, The Wassaic Project, the Cuttyhunk Writers Residency, and the San Miguel Literary Sala. In addition to writing novels, she serves as a professor of English teaching creative writing at Providence College in Rhode Island, and her essays and prose have appeared in Vogue, McSweeney's, Outside Magazine, LitHub, and Joyland.
Espach's writing balances humor with acute emotional observations, frequently exploring themes of tragedy, family, intimacy, and self-discovery. Her narratives often focus on central characters navigating unexpected turning points and complex interpersonal dynamics. Beyond traditional print fiction, Espach demonstrated her versatility in storytelling by writing the Audible Original fictional audio series In-Depth Market Research Interviews with Dead People.
