B&N Book Club: Alison Espach discusses THE WEDDING PEOPLE

A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people who help her start anew.

Join Barnes & Noble as we welcome bestselling author Alison Espach for a live, virtual event to discuss our August B&N Book Club pick, THE WEDDING PEOPLE, her most absurdly funny and devastatingly tender novel yet.

The author of the acclaimed Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance (one of our former Fiction Monthly Picks) cordially invites us to the Cornwell Inn. With a tender heart and a wry sense of humor, this is a thoughtful gem of a story.

If you don’t have a copy, please order the B&N Exclusive edition of the book before our book club event.

Alison Espach will be in discussion with Lexie Smyth, Fiction Category Manager and Allyson Gavaletz, Publisher Liaison for Barnes & Noble.

PLEASE NOTE: There will be spoilers at this book club event!

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About THE WEDDING PEOPLE:

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.

About Alison Espach:

Alison Espach is the author of the novels The Adults, a New York Times Editors’ Choice and a Barnes & Noble Discover pick, and Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance, which was named a best book of 2022 by the Chicago Tribune and NPR. Her short stories and essays have appeared in McSweeney’s, Vogue, Outside, Joyland, and other places. She is a professor of creative writing at Providence College in Rhode Island.