It''s a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island when Phoebe Stone arrives at the Cornwall Inn wearing her best dress and least comfortable heels. The lobby, in fact every room at the hotel, is occupied by wedding people. Every room except Phoebe''s. On her way up in the elevator, she gets trapped with the bride, who realizes Phoebe isn''t here for the ''wedding week'' and demands to know her intentions. Without shame, Phoebe shares that she has come to the Cornwall because it is her happy place, and it''s here that she plans to end her life. The bride is livid, and simply will not have her perfectly planned wedding ruined by this sad stranger. That night - as the wedding people begin their atrocious speeches - Phoebe wavers and finds that she cannot turn away from their drama and dysfunction. She is still broken, but for the next five days she is suddenly pulled into a family she doesn''t belong to, and the matrimonial chaos that might just lead to a happy ever after.

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Alison Espach is the author of three novels including The Wedding People, which was selected for the Read With Jenna book club and became a major international bestseller. Her short stories and essays have appeared in a wide range of publications, including McSweeney's and Vogue. She is a Professor of creative writing at Providence College in Rhode Island.

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For fans of Really Good Actually and Romantic Comedy, a funny and touching novel about a woman who checks in to a glamorous hotel at the lowest point in her life, only to find herself swept into a stranger's wedding and forever changed by her entanglement in their dysfunctional family