The Wedding People：The hilarious and moving Read With Jenna book club pick

《The Wedding People》由Alison Espach所著，故事講述女主角菲比（Phoebe）在經歷離婚、失業與愛貓去世後，帶著輕生念頭來到羅德島新港市的豪華旅館-Cornwall Inn，希望在這裡結束生命。她穿著綠色洋裝和金色高跟鞋，被誤認為是正在舉辦盛大婚禮的一部分，這場婚禮正由新娘莉拉（Lila）精心籌備。

隨著菲比被迫捲入婚禮的種種混亂與危機，她與莉拉意外地建立起情誼。菲比逐漸找到生活的意義和希望，也與新郎加里（Gary）產生了情感火花，並重新開啟對人生和家庭的期待。書中真實刻劃了菲比內心的掙扎與成長，探討失婚、身心健康、孤獨與救贖等主題。

本書以婚禮一週的時間窗口為背景，交織出多角度的人物關係和心理描寫，情節既緊湊又感人。它展現了疲憊靈魂如何通過意外契機重新找到生命的光亮。

The runaway New York Times bestseller with over one million copies sold
A Today Show #ReadwithJenna Book Club Pick, New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and a #1 Indie Next Pick
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian, Time, Chicago Tribune Biblioracle, HuffPost, US Magazine, Elle, Real Simple, and Glamour

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

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.