{"id":21360,"date":"2025-09-10T17:04:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T17:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musthavebuys.com\/?p=21360"},"modified":"2025-09-10T17:04:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T17:04:00","slug":"the-wedding-people-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musthavebuys.com\/?p=21360","title":{"rendered":"The Wedding People: A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\nPrice: <span style=\"color:#b12704\">$0.00<\/span><br \/><i><small>(as of Sep 10, 2025 17:04:00 UTC &#8211; <span class=\"wp_automatic_amazon_disclaimer\" title=\"Product prices and availability are accurate as of the date\/time indicated and are subject to change. Any price and availability information displayed on [relevant Amazon Site(s), as applicable] at the time of purchase will apply to the purchase of this product.\">Details<\/span>)<\/small><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amazon.com\/dp\/B0CKLZGC6V?tag=blogwithsu04-20\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/valvepress.s3.amazonaws.com\/imgs\/buy_now.png\"><\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Long-listed, Library Journal Best Books of the Year, 2024<\/p>\n<p>Winner, Goodreads Choice Awards, 2024<\/p>\n<p>Long-listed, Time Magazine Best Books of the Year, 2024<\/p>\n<p>Long-listed, Audible.com Best of the Year, 2024<\/p>\n<p>Long-listed, CPL: Chicago Public Library Best of the Best, 2024<\/p>\n<p>Long-listed, Amazon.com Best Books of the Year, 2024<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As narrator, the terrific Laser, an actress and puppeteer, only enhances the swoon-worthy quirks and romance.&#8221;\u2014Vulture<\/p>\n<p>A Today show #ReadwithJenna Book Club Pick, A Goodreads Choice Awards 2024 Winner, and long-listed in many Best of the Year 2024 picks!<\/p>\n<p>A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people who help her start anew.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s 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&#8217;s immediately mistaken by everyone in the lobby for one of the wedding people, but she\u2019s actually the only guest at the Cornwall who isn\u2019t here for the big event. Phoebe is here because she\u2019s dreamed of coming for years\u2014she hoped to shuck oysters and take sunset sails with her husband, only now she\u2019s 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&#8217;s plan\u2014which makes it that much more surprising when the two women can\u2019t stop confiding in each other.<\/p>\n<p>In turns absurdly funny and devastatingly tender, Alison Espach\u2019s The Wedding People is ultimately an incredibly nuanced and resonant look at the winding paths we can take to places we never imagined\u2014and the chance encounters it sometimes takes to reroute us.<\/p>\n<p>A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt &amp; Company.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Long-listed, Library Journal Best Books of the Year, 2024 Winner, Goodreads Choice Awards, 2024 Long-listed, Time Magazine Best Books of the Year, 2024 Long-listed, Audible.com Best of the Year, 2024 Long-listed, CPL: Chicago Public Library Best of the Best, 2024 Long-listed, Amazon.com Best Books of the Year, 2024 &#8220;As narrator, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/91V51AuJ5BL._SL1500_.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[175],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-21360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","tag-e-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musthavebuys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musthavebuys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musthavebuys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musthavebuys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musthavebuys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musthavebuys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musthavebuys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musthavebuys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musthavebuys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musthavebuys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21360"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musthavebuys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fofferexpiration&post=21360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}