by Alison Espach
This month’s Fable Circle pick is the kind of book that gives you everything to talk about — messy relationships, unexpected friendships, emotional healing, sharp humor, and the chaos that happens when strangers collide at a wedding weekend. 💍✨
At its heart, The Wedding People explores loneliness, reinvention, connection, and what it means to choose yourself again after life doesn’t go the way you planned. It’s emotional, witty, surprisingly hopeful, and packed with the kind of moments that make for the best book club conversations.
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• The June book club selection
• A Tipsy Fable bookmark
• A drink pairing recommendation card inspired by the story
• Access to the Fable Circle discussion
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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.
