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The Wedding People

Alison Espach

Phoebe Stone checks into a grand Newport hotel in a green dress and no luggage, planning one last night. The Cornwall Inn is already packed with Lila and Gary's week-long wedding, and the bride is not about to let a stranger's crisis wreck the itinerary. Espach's novel is darkly funny and unexpectedly tender: a story about the performance of a perfect wedding, the outsider who crashes it, and the strange mercy of being honest with someone who was never supposed to know you.

“There is no such thing as a happy place. Because when you are happy, everywhere is a happy place. And when you are sad, everywhere is a sad place.”

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What color dress is Phoebe wearing when she arrives at the Cornwall Inn?